[72588] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Regional differences in P2P
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Sun Jul 18 14:44:49 2004
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 21:44:10 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Walter De Smedt <wdesmedt@telenet.be>
Cc: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>,
Michel Py <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040718123116.GA74797@robin.isa-geek.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Walter De Smedt wrote:
>
>The next step in P2P recognition seems to be deep packet inspection with
>signature based detection. The major problem here is scalability - I
>don't see some device analyzing 1G, the typical uplink capacity of
>Internet gateways in a medium SP network, of traffic at layer 7.
>If this should be feasable, what if P2P applications would employ
>encryption schemes (e.g. IPSec) - this would render signature-based
>recognition useless.
>
>
We can do realistically 1.3G with current bits. I´m not ready to talk
about performance by the end of the year. As a bonus, you'll get
classification and population reports for both p2p and backdoored /
virused hosts without performance impact.
(export these with BGP4 to fancy effects, or simple ACL / firewall list
for more traditional approach)
Pete