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Re: BitTorrent is 35% of traffic ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeroen Massar)
Fri Nov 5 11:03:26 2004

From: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
To: Christian Kuhtz <christian.kuhtz@BellSouth.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <BDB10A1B.A2D8%christian.kuhtz@bellsouth.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 17:00:08 +0100
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu



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On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 10:44 -0500, Christian Kuhtz wrote:

> The commercial tools for classifying deeper than header info a la netflow
> are out there already, although they may not be as "slick to deploy" as
> netflow (which brings its own challenges) by turning on knobs in software=
 on
> existing routing equipment.  The limitation is how motivated is the busin=
ess
> to deploy the gear, not whether viable equipment exists for exactly that
> purpose..

And which kind of gear is this, except for boxes which need a mirror of
the complete traffic ?

There are a couple of NetFlow (9/IPFIX) meters that can additionally to
the normal fields can also pass eg the first 100 bytes of a conversation
in either direction. But those are also meters on a seperate box and not
embedded in the hardware of routers (or is there anything I missed ;)

Greets,
 Jeroen


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