[ale] (OT) schools and filesharing

[Jonathan Glass]

> On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, John P. Healey wrote:
>> One word:  Firewall.
>
> You're kidding right?
>
> Sure...you can put a firewall in place.  Now, since most P2P apps jump
> around ports like crazy, do you just block everything? or take the
> attitude that Web=Internet?  IIRC, if all else fails, Kazaa runs over port
> 80. What's the point of having an academic network if you can't use it to
> learn?  If you shut down everything then you are limiting students to just
> web browesing...so much for creating new tools, etc..
>
> What we have done is put a packetshaper in place.  All P2P traffic for the
> whole campus is limited to 28.8kbps.  It doesn't matter if they are
> pulling down movie rips, illegal mp3's or perfectly legal mp3s.  We have a
> limited amount of bandwidth that gets used for administrative and academic
> purposes.  If this work can not get done because the P2P traffic is
> constantly using all the traffic, then again, what is the purpose of
> having the network connection?
>
> I think this is a band-aid.  Before long someone is gonna get smart and
> Kazaa will run over 443 via SSL, and then it'll look just like any other
> web traffic and be a nightmare to try and filter on.
>
>
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Firewall + P2PWall = No Kazaa

See this article; http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6945

Thanks & HTH
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Jonathan Glass
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