Re: Do you block P2P ?

[Charles Seitz <cseitz () UTM EDU>]

The only P2P we outright block is Bitorrent. All others get rate shaped to
share 1k of bandwidth. That way, students can connect but will assume that
it's broken instead of getting rejected trying over and over again with
different P2P clients until they stumble on one that our packet shaper or
IPS doesn't know about. It seems to work quite well. We haven't had a RIAA
complaint in a very long time (knock on wood...). We will allow certain
exceptions on the student network to permit some games to update as they
frequently use P2P protocols.

Charles A. Seitz
Senior Security Analyst
University of Tennessee Information Security Office
Martin Campus
cseitz () tennessee edu
(731) 881-7966
Mobile (615) 948-3641



On 9/3/09 2:12 PM, "mike corcoran" <mike.corcoran () WRIGHT EDU> wrote:

> How many of you block P2P on your campus?  If you do block it, how many
> complaints do you receive because of it?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike