We have been using a product called PacketSure (used to be called PacketHound) from a company called Palisade Systems (www.palisadesys.com) for the past three years. Our is licensed up to 1000 users and was about 60% of the cost of Packateer. We are using it for it's P2P blocking ability, but it does do bandwidth control. At the time it had a functionality that PAckateer did not have, as not only could you set it up to packet shape (still allowing all types of connections but just extremely slow as the max bandwidth threshold had been reached) but you can also set the bandwidth max at a certain level and not allow anymore connections once that max limit has been reached. This was exactly what we were interested in, as it grabbed the attention of the students much more than just having a slow internet pipe. It has a gui that has numerous out of the box reports as well as many custom reports. We are using one on a daily basis that is setup to email directly the top 25 users (by ip) of bandwidth. Like I said, P2P is really what we were concerned about. There are some new P2P apps that come out that I will occasionally need to download a new rule from their website for us to successfully block. To be honest, it has not been much of an issue since we increased our internet pipe from 3 to 6 Mb. PacketSure helped us be in compliance with not allowing P2P traffic. Prior to it being installed, we had received letters and emails mainly from RIAA and Sony regarding illegal music on our network. Both actually provided a list of songs, usernames, etc. It didn't take too many of these correspondences before the administration of the college decided $9000 was nothing, if it took care of the problem. Neil Olson Information Technology Grand View College 1200 Grandview Ave Des Moines IA 50316 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 515-263-2800
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Dan Horne Sent: Tue 4/25/2006 11:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [IMail Forum] WAY OT: Bandwidth Management (once more with feeling) I know this has been discussed before on this list, but what are you guys using for bandwidth management, and what are your experiences? Background: We provide internet access for many of the tenants in our building, as well as hosting hundreds of websites on Apache2 and IIS6. Those services are on two different physical networks, but they share our WAN line. I am looking for a way to allocate bandwidth by IP address (or even by IIS host header, if possible for the websites). The WAN line can scale up to 15mbps, so I need something that will work with that amount of bandwidth. I know the names of most of the big players in the field such as Packeteer, Allot and some others. I have also tried M0n0wall and pfSense (open-source solutions), but those two products interfered with my users' FTP connections for some reason and I wasn't able to test them further. Any input will be appreciated. Dan Horne Web Services Administrator TAIS [EMAIL PROTECTED] CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. SPAM-FREE 1.0(2476) To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
<<winmail.dat>>
