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vanblah · 03-17-2005, 08:12 AM

At the college that I work at we use Packetteer(sp?) to shape the traffic. It's pretty certain that you won't get around it for a while. Colleges and Universities get a steep discount from Packetteer so your school probably has one. We use it to throttle all known P2P traffic. We don't stop it entirely ... we just don't want to be a honeypot for the rest of the world.

By the way, if you think your IT dept is not watching you, think again. We use MRTG and IPAUDIT as well as the Packetteer to identify the bandwidth hogs. We have been known to call the worst offenders and remove their network accounts entirely. Not to be assholes ... but because it's really not fair to other students who have also paid that pittance of a technology fee. What is yours? Ours is like $75 (75 * 1200 on campus students = 90000).

We have a 45M pipe that is segmented 25 to students 20 to administration. We pay quite a bit just for that pipe ($54000/year), not to mention the server upgrades(about 20,000/year), desktop upgrades (180,000/year), software licenses (100,000/year), maintenence agreements (20,000), and salaries which I'm guessing at about 1 million per year and we're horribly understaffed (I'm the ONLY system admin, the rest are DBAs).

The students constantly complain about the network being slow. Perhaps it's because we have 1200 people who serve every known P2P program available. It has NOTHING to do with the amount of bandwidth we purchase. It has NOTHING to do with servers, switches, or any other infrastructure.

Take your bandwidth cap like an adult. You earned it.

03-17-2005, 08:12 AM	#18 (permalink)
vanblah Junkie	At the college that I work at we use Packetteer(sp?) to shape the traffic. It's pretty certain that you won't get around it for a while. Colleges and Universities get a steep discount from Packetteer so your school probably has one. We use it to throttle all known P2P traffic. We don't stop it entirely ... we just don't want to be a honeypot for the rest of the world. By the way, if you think your IT dept is not watching you, think again. We use MRTG and IPAUDIT as well as the Packetteer to identify the bandwidth hogs. We have been known to call the worst offenders and remove their network accounts entirely. Not to be assholes ... but because it's really not fair to other students who have also paid that pittance of a technology fee. What is yours? Ours is like $75 (75 * 1200 on campus students = 90000). We have a 45M pipe that is segmented 25 to students 20 to administration. We pay quite a bit just for that pipe ($54000/year), not to mention the server upgrades(about 20,000/year), desktop upgrades (180,000/year), software licenses (100,000/year), maintenence agreements (20,000), and salaries which I'm guessing at about 1 million per year and we're horribly understaffed (I'm the ONLY system admin, the rest are DBAs). The students constantly complain about the network being slow. Perhaps it's because we have 1200 people who serve every known P2P program available. It has NOTHING to do with the amount of bandwidth we purchase. It has NOTHING to do with servers, switches, or any other infrastructure. Take your bandwidth cap like an adult. You earned it.