[geeks] P2P Monitoring / Mitigation

[Nick B.]

I'll trade you.. build me a nice radar and I'll setup your network!
	Nick
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 01:06:07PM -0400, Bill Blum wrote:
> Bill Bradford wrote:
> >On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:36:44PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> >> Has anyone considered human-level measures, such as telling the
> >> students "look, people, we don't have the bandwidth to support this"?
> >> (It might help, it might not, depending on the students.)
> >
> >"Anyone caught running P2P filesharing apps will have their room's network
> connection terminated or throttled to 64kbps ISDN speeds."
> >
> >Bill
> 
> Well, the average student user at my school isn't that technically literate---
> unless it impacts their Myspace, Facebook, or Limewire/Bearshare access,
> they're effectively oblivious.
> 
> Our other problem-- neither myself or my boss really have any business mucking
> around internally in the Cisco gear, as it was all installed by an
> Outside Contractor
> when we went from POTS+ethernet and campus-wide wireless access.
> (I can build you a radar from off-the-shelf-parts.   I'm still lucky
> to get a cat-5 cable right on the first try).
> 
> I'm looking at Packetfence, and pfSense may work as well.
> Thanks for the guidance, people.
> -- 
> Bill Blum
> Bill.Blum at gmail.com
> "Experience is the knowledge that enables you to recognize a mistake
> when you make it again."
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