p2p traffic

[Arie Kachler]

Thomas,

I don't know of a FreeBSD-based solution to this problem.
But Packeteer makes devices that do what you're looking for.
See http://www.packeteer.com/prod-sol/products/packetseeker.cfm.
Hope it helps.

Arie Kachler




>Hello
>
>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. 
>
>regards
>Thomas Vogt
>