Re: Traffic Management

[Ng Pheng Siong <ngps () post1 com>]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 11:55:00AM -0500, bparis () sorrentolactalis com wrote:
>       Recently we've been experiencing "congestion" of our internet pipe.
> We've tried restricting various thing like Napster, Gnutella and the like
> with varying degrees of success, but as more and more users come onto our
> LAN/WAN we've noticed our performance decreasing. Rather than manage this at
> our firewall (with many many rules), I'd like to know how you manage your
> traffic. What do you use?

Various people will suggest looking into traffic shaping etc.

I'll also suggest you look into a traffic accounting/billing system. ;-)

Just tot up the utilisation and most visited URLs, publish high-score 
tables, and see the usage dip. (Hopefully.)

If your traffic is all legit, you'll just have to upgrade. 


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