had that. they didn't seem to care.

or perhaps they didnt know they were running P2P clients.(?)



At 08:39 AM 3/22/2007, Allen Smith wrote:
>Perhaps a little social engineering could serve you well.  You could
>force users to click through a web page (much like you see when you
>get on at a coffee shop) that displays a sufficiently scary notice
>about how traffic is monitored across the network.
>
>
>
>On Mar 22, 2007, at 7:24 AM, Steve Shapery wrote:
>
>>I guess I wasn't clear in my initial tirade about why I tore down
>>the node.
>>
>>In general, I've seen 4-6 people on the node at any given time,
>>sending email, surfing the web, browsing YouTube, whatever.
>>
>>but then within 5 days, I saw none of the regular nodes, and I saw
>>six new ones online, all doing P2P at the same time.
>>
>>different apps, different versions, different servers.
>>
>>But they were the only apps I saw live for days at a time.
>>
>>I guess the crux of my issue is that they so blatantly abused the
>>service, and that also I couldn't get the P2P completely blocked,
>>either through MW or through my Cisco with NBAR.
>>
>>but when one runs across people puilling 14 mbit of P2P over ones'
>>wire, one tends to get irked.
>>
>>
>>          -S
>>
>>
>>At 09:33 PM 3/21/2007, you wrote:
>>>FWIW, we do some bandwidth shaping already. M0n0wall has some
>>>built in
>>>rules to elevate traffic like email and ssh and push down known P2P
>>>(based chiefly on port numbers), leaving http in the middle. See the
>>>m0n0wall docs for more details.
>>>
>>>Re logging of data, I've heard it every way. You shouldn't keep logs
>>>because then you can't get into trouble for not providing them, or
>>>get
>>>sued by someone subsequently because you did provide them and
>>>shouldn't
>>>have. You should keep logs so you can be a responsible citizen and
>>>help
>>>the authorities track things down, and also show that it wasn't
>>>you. Or
>>>you should keep logs, but anonymize them sufficiently to show that it
>>>wasn't you, but you can't tell who it really was.
>>>
>>>We briefly toyed with the idea of keeping logs and making them all
>>>public all the time, but then it was pointed out that they could
>>>be used
>>>by stalkers.  Currently we don't keep logs because the donated syslog
>>>server we were using has died. Before then we used to keep dhcp lease
>>>logs only. We do have limited logs on the m0n0wall gateways, but they
>>>expire quickly. Meraki keeps logs, and I don't know exactly what
>>>their
>>>policy is (though now I'll ask!).
>>>
>>>Its a fascinating topic (though not to all, as a couple of recent
>>>unsubscribes suggest!). I'll be happy to continue in person at
>>>tomorrow
>>>night's monthly meeting if anyone who attends is interested.
>>>http://socalfreenet.org/node/751
>>>
>>>cheers, michael
>>>--
>>>Michael Mee
>>>858-531-0735
>>>www.socalfreenet.org
>>>
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