saint james wrote:
> Bandwidth shaping software/hardware exists, the .EDU's
> found it was the only way to control Napster.
> Very expensive. With this you can deny, not by
> port/IP,
> but by application type, ie "napster". You can also
> control who (applications wise) gets the bandwidth and
> how much. Some .EDU's allowed a little bandwidth for
> Napster.
Other locations are cheap and smart and downloaded a copy of Linux for
free and configured the traffic control and quality of service features,
set up their ipchains to send napster related traffic through a lower
priority queue (by port) but not block it so that it doesn't change
ports. Napster can be made to feel like its running on a 2400 baud
modem all the time, or it can just get any available bandwidth with the
lowest priority (it never saturates the network).
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Michael T. Babcock (PGP: 0xBE6C1895)
http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/
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