[38168] in Resnet-Forum
Re: Peer to Peer and Gaming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bailey, John)
Thu Apr 4 15:23:49 2013
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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 19:23:16 +0000
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Here at Washington University of St. Louis, we got out of the business of s=
niffing and blocking certain types of traffic, and we have been much better=
off since. We moved to a simple Net Equalizer appliance that ensures=
each student gets a fair slice of the
available bandwidth and throttles down devices that have a huge number of =
connections (likely bit torrent-style traffic.)
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<div>Of course, we still have a swift and robust tracking and response syst=
em for dealing with copyright infringement complaints, so the students have=
a healthy fear of using any P2P file sharing apps while on campus. W=
e have not seen any notable increase
in copyright violation notices since we moved away from targeting and bloc=
king specific types of traffic. This change has gotten us almost comp=
letely away from the various instances like you are describing below where =
a legitimate bit of traffic was getting
hung up because of P2P management tools. </div>
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<div>- John<br>
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<div style=3D"text-align: center; "><b>John Bailey - Assistant Director - S=
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<div style=3D"text-align: center; ">Washington University in St. Louis - In=
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<div>On Apr 4, 2013, at 2:15 PM, "Ward, Tim" <<a href=3D"mailt=
o:wardtd@miamioh.edu">wardtd@miamioh.edu</a>></div>
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<div dir=3D"ltr">Hey All,
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<div style=3D"">Here at Miami, we've recently seen an uptick in calls from =
students on our residential network who are unable to play some online game=
s. Most notably, a change at the beginning of March to League of Legends ha=
s prevented students on our network
from connecting to the game. Some investigation has revealed that the game=
is now being picked up by our TippingPoint units as BitTorrent traffic and=
blocked, as we have a strict no peer-to-peer policy on campus. At first we=
thought it was just the patcher
being blocked, but even after successfully patching, it appears to be bloc=
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<div style=3D"">I was just wondering if anyone out there has run into simil=
ar issues, and if so, what sort of solutions you've reached?</div>
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<div style=3D"">Thanks,</div>
<div style=3D"">Tim Ward</div>
<div style=3D"">Quality Coordinator</div>
<div style=3D"">Miami University IT Services</div>
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