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Re: Do you block P2P ?
From: Mike Porter <mike () UDEL EDU>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 00:03:48 -0400
On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Cal Frye wrote:
David Gillett wrote:We have ONCE, so far, had someone come to use with an academic need to run Skype on a particular machine on our network.While Skype uses P2P-like technology, it's not in the same class as Torrent as a file-sharing medium. It's really best to separate P2P file-sharing from other uses of the same serverless design. Our Language Lab uses Skype to connect a classroomful of Spanish students, for example, with a similar class of English students in Barcelona for one-on-one conversation in both languages. Most effective, and economical besides. I use our Packetlogic to enhance Skype performance, not to block it...
How do you handle cases where a machine gets elected to be a supernode? We find the amount of NetFlow traffic this generates to be rather large. Not the bandwidth, though. Mike Mike Porter Systems Programmer V IT/NSS University of Delaware
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Current thread:
- Re: Do you block P2P ?, (continued)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Mclaughlin, Kevin (mclaugkl) (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? randy marchany (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Brian Epstein (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Cal Frye (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Kevin Wilcox (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Guy Pace (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Todd Humphreys (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? David Gillett (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Plesco, Todd (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Cal Frye (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Mike Porter (Sep 03)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Wayne Bullock (Sep 04)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Barros, Jacob (Sep 04)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Doty, Timothy T. (Sep 04)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Mike Porter (Sep 04)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Avdagic, Indir (Sep 04)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Sweeny, Jonny (Sep 04)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Gary Flynn (Sep 04)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Bob Bayn (Sep 04)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Gregg, Christopher S. (Sep 04)
- Re: Do you block P2P ? Cal Frye (Sep 05)
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