Re: Do you block P2P ?

[Mike Porter <mike () UDEL EDU>]

On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Barros, Jacob wrote:

> I am surprised how much Skype has published to that end.  You should be
> able to integrate these registry settings into your NAC solution.

We do not have a NAC solution for the dorms.  Staff machines are
not as much of a problem.

> http://skype.com/security/network-admin-guide-version2.2.pdf

Yes, I have seen this.  Rumors about the accuracy come and go...

Thanks,

Mike

> Jacob Barros
> Network Administrator
> Grace College
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Mike Porter
> Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 12:04 AM
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> Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Do you block P2P ?
>
> On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Cal Frye wrote:
>
> > David Gillett wrote:
> > >   We have ONCE, so far, had someone come to use with an academic need
> to run
> > > Skype on a particular machine on our network.
> >
> > While Skype uses P2P-like technology, it's not in the same class as
> > Torrent as a file-sharing medium. It's really best to separate P2P
> > file-sharing from other uses of the same serverless design.
> >
> > Our Language Lab uses Skype to connect a classroomful of Spanish
> > students, for example, with a similar class of English students in
> > Barcelona for one-on-one conversation in both languages. Most
> effective,
> > and economical besides. I use our Packetlogic to enhance Skype
> > performance, not to block it...
>
> How do you handle cases where a machine gets elected to be a
> supernode?  We find the amount of NetFlow traffic this generates to
> be rather large.  Not the bandwidth, though.
>
> Mike
>
> Mike Porter
> Systems Programmer V
> IT/NSS
> University of Delaware
>
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