Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 09:00:51 -0700 From: Navan Carson <navan@netlinkers.net> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: p2p traffic Message-ID: <403E1833.7040101@netlinkers.net> In-Reply-To: <20040226143350.24a35dc1@bert.mlan.solnet.ch> References: <20040226143350.24a35dc1@bert.mlan.solnet.ch>
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Thomas Vogt wrote: > I'm thinking about the p2p network problem. P2p creates a lot of > traffic. I don't care if my backbone is full but not only with p2p > traffic. Atm I do some queueing with dummynet for the well known p2p > ports. But this looks not sufficient. Is there another, perhaps better > solution to decrease the p2p traffic? Blocking is no alternative. > Another problem is that new p2p clients uses port 80. So it's very > difficult to reconize the p2p traffic. Try the method describe in the following article: http://www.holland-consulting.net/tech/imblock.html You also have your usage policy. Forbid it in all of the packages that you offer. If customers really want this, create an package that covers the additional cost that you will incur.
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