Re: Gaming and dorm students

["Behun, Michael" <behun () BUFFALO EDU>]

Something to consider:   Changing network traffic allowed, may inadvertently result in copyright complaints.    The 
laptop connected to the network that has P2P client running in the background will broadcast.   While it may not be 
practical to download/upload, the machine may be listed in a tracker.   This may be a problem for the laptop brought 
into the school.  A person may forget P2P is running in the background.

You could limit exposure by limiting network area to dorms, specific allow firewall rules,....

Just my personal 2 cents.

Mike.


-----Original Message-----
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Williamson
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OK...why didn't I think of that....

Bob Williamson
Network Administrator
Annie Wright Schools | 827 N Tacoma Ave, Tacoma, WA 98403 | www.aw.org
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-----Original Message-----
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Stephen
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 3:56 AM
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Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Gaming and dorm students

We limit all the P2P traffic to about 1Kbps and that allows the gamers to login and then they switch to whatever works. 
 For some reason they need P2P to login but not to run.

steve

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Bob Williamson <bob_williamson () aw org> wrote:
> I am the network admin at a small K-12 private school.  We have about
> 90 dorm students.
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> A problem I am running into is enabling the dorm students to be able 
> to use normal games like "World of Wrcraft", "League of Legends", etc.
> It seems a lot of these games are using bittorrent on the backend.
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> Without digging into the specifics, how are others handling the 
> dormers requests?  Telling them no does not seem appropriate, but not 
> letting them play seems bogus.  I was toying with the idea of having 
> the individuals sign a sheet saying they will not use bittorent for illegal purposes.
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> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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> Note that I am using a Palo Alto so can handle filtering by user and 
> app level.
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>
> Bob Williamson
> Network Administrator
> Annie Wright Schools | 827 N Tacoma Ave, Tacoma, WA 98403 | www.aw.org
> D: 253.272.2216 | F: 253.572.3616 | Bob_Williamson () aw org
>
> Mission: Annie Wright's strong community cultivates individual 
> learners to become well-educated, creative, and responsible citizens 
> for a global society.
>
> Find Annie Wright Schools on Facebook
> Follow our Head of Schools on Twitter @AWShead



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