Kazaa/Morpheus/et.al.

[Peter Murray]

--On Wednesday, January 30, 2002 5:12 PM -0800 Dan Lester 
<dan at riverofdata.com> wrote:
> I don't want to embroil the rest of you in campus issues, but am
> wondering how others have dealt with this.  Have you blocked the Kazaa
> traffic at all times, at certain times, or never?  Have you limited
> the amount of bandwidth that you permit that traffic to use?  Have you
> done something else?

I believe our campus uses a product called Packetshaper from Packeteer to 
control network usage.  The product sits between your Internet connection 
and your LAN, and controls bandwidth consumption based on user, protocol, 
application, and other parameters.

  <http://www.packeteer.com/products/packetshaper/>

So one could limit P2P traffic to a certain rate or allow one user to 
only consume a certain fraction of the bandwidth, and allow the rest of 
the network to use the remainder of the connection.


Peter
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Peter Murray, Computer Services Librarian              W: 860-570-5233
University of Connecticut Law School             Hartford, Connecticut