Lee,

 

We use Fortinet Fortigate appliances extensively with great success at
handling P2P traffic.

 

As a whole, we generally block the entire FortiGuard P2P category (among
others), and then whitelist legitimate applications higher in the policy
set. Skype, Steam, and Battle.net are a few examples of P2P traffic that we
do allow. I have also been slowly moving our traffic shaping efforts off of
Blue Coat PacketShapers and onto our FortiGates with great success and
simplified administration.

 

If you'd like to see what is encompassed in the FortiGuard P2P category, you
can view it here: https://fortiguard.com/appcontrol

 

I'm sure that PA has similar features that you are already utilizing.

 

 

Thanks,

 

Chris Adams, CISSP

 

Director, Network & Telecom Services

Division of Information Technology

University of North Georgia

E-Mail:  <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] | Office: (706)
867-2891

 

From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
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Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Top P2P apps as classified by shapers?

 

Apologies for the dual-posting for those who fall into that.

 

I'm wondering if those schools running Palo Alto boxes and the like might be
willing to share what your appliances are classifying as the top 10-15 P2P
apps seen these days, whether you choose to block/limit them or not? Just
want to sanity check one of our methodologies, and a few outside views would
be helpful if anyone feels like sharing that information.

 

Regards,

 

Lee Badman

 

Lee Badman | Network Architect (CWDP, CWNA, CWSP, Mobility+)

Information Technology Services
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