Re: QoS and P2P?

[Paul Robertson <proberts () patriot net>]

On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Mikael Olsson wrote:

> To me, the only solution is to set up a "bandwidth balancer" that 
> portions out the available bandwidth in a fair way. This way, it
> doesn't matter what they're running. If they're l33ch1ng too hard,
> well, _their_ downloads are likely the ones to be limited the most
> by the per-user bandwidth limits as they start decreasing in 
> response to overload.

That's QoS- which is a different part of the problem.  Increasingly, real 
pressure is being put on network operators to stop "bad packets" (and all 
the stupidity that entails) by those who write the checks and don't want 
to write a raft of them to lawyers.  

If stopping causal usage stops the overbroad lawyer pointing, then that's 
probably "good enough" because there's a "bad apple" defense for the folks 
who are going out of their way to bypass the controls.  I thought it was 
an interesting use of QoS to use it in such a role, and was wondering not 
only how effective it was, but what alternatives exist that would do the 
same sort of thing.  I'll be summarizing the responses once I'm pretty 
sure I've got all the interesting stuff.

Paul
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Paul D. Robertson      "My statements in this message are personal opinions
proberts () patriot net      which may have no basis whatsoever in fact."
probertson () trusecure com Director of Risk Assessment TruSecure Corporation

_______________________________________________
firewall-wizards mailing list
firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com
http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards