Re: Gaming and dorm students

["Hahues, Sven" <shahues () FGCU EDU>]

I am late to the party but here's what we do:

We got the charge from our housing administration to make living in housing as close to living at home as possible, so 
we have totally unfiltered Internet, and a dedicated publically routable network for playstations/xboxs to get around 
the NAT complications.

It's great for the students, it's hard for us, because we never have enough bandwidth.  We have recently deployed an 
Exinda traffic shaping device (like 2 weeks ago) but we are still in the process of tuning it.

We have a system that ties in with our NAC that will automatically move p2p users into a quarantine network, and they 
get told they violated our networks acceptable use policy.  This helps us for the most part with the RIAA/MPAA 
complaints.

Depending on the amount of people in your dorms, the sign in sheet may work, or you could allow everything from the 
dorms, and just log who does what.  If you get an RIAA notice, you can suspend the users network access.

Just some ideas.

Sven

-----Original Message-----
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Williamson
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 9:24 PM
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Subject: [SECURITY] Gaming and dorm students

I am the network admin at a small K-12 private school.  We have about 90 dorm students.



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.



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.



Any thoughts would be appreciated.



Note that I am using a Palo Alto so can handle filtering by user and app level.



Bob Williamson
Network Administrator
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