Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Another slashdot article: Ohio University blocks P2P traffic
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/04/25/219257.shtml
Yep, they've gone and blocked all P2P sharing.
Is this something we do? For that, I refer you to the ResTek group since they're the ones handling that end of it.
From what I understand they're using quality-of-service methods to provide a disincentive for P2P. Regular traffic is set to a fairly low priority. Known-good traffic is bumped up, and known-good is fairly permissive. I know they regularly bump up game servers in priority. I have no idea what kinds of throughput bittorrent gets from their networks. They also run a caching proxy for HTTP traffic that is set to a very high priority in order to make normal web traffic run at a good speed (the downside of that is, of course, logging, which I know some students don't like).
And most importantly, ResTek's network is physically separate from WWU Campus. This was done before I got here, and is something I've come to appreciate. I have friends who work on a campus of about our size that has the res-net on the main campus link. Their bandwidth bill is much higher than ours thanks to that.
Yep, they've gone and blocked all P2P sharing.
Is this something we do? For that, I refer you to the ResTek group since they're the ones handling that end of it.
From what I understand they're using quality-of-service methods to provide a disincentive for P2P. Regular traffic is set to a fairly low priority. Known-good traffic is bumped up, and known-good is fairly permissive. I know they regularly bump up game servers in priority. I have no idea what kinds of throughput bittorrent gets from their networks. They also run a caching proxy for HTTP traffic that is set to a very high priority in order to make normal web traffic run at a good speed (the downside of that is, of course, logging, which I know some students don't like).
And most importantly, ResTek's network is physically separate from WWU Campus. This was done before I got here, and is something I've come to appreciate. I have friends who work on a campus of about our size that has the res-net on the main campus link. Their bandwidth bill is much higher than ours thanks to that.
Labels: sysadmin
<permalink> posted by riedesg : 4/25/2007 05:08:00 PM
