Major Network design help needed ....

[Ben Duncan]

yeah, I am thinking the uBR900 is kinda weak anyway.

As far as crackers/hackers and file swappers, he told me about one of
the students who downloaded about 1.5GB in an a little over an hour
just that morning.

I also suspect a fair amount of "bit torrenting" and napster like
activities going on as well as probably some server farms and on-line
games being hosted there.

I will investigate to see if PORT blocking can be turned on in the ProCurves.
Since the ProCurves are SNMP capable, any ideas on "monitoring" software for
these things ? (Like MRTG?)

The HP management software for the PRO Curves runs about $2500+/- USD for
a 100 device license.

Thanks ...

Michael Hipp wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Ben Duncan wrote:
> 
> Since what they're running here is essentially an ISP, they may want to 
> invest in some traffic shaping software running on a Linux or xxxBSD box.
> 
> Note that a 6M/6M cable connection is a bent soda straw to try to sip 
> the amount of bandwidth thru for apartment buildings full of college-age 
> downloaders, uploaders and crackers. Their problem might be no more 
> complex than their cable modem is out of gas and their line is saturated.
> 
> Just some thoughts...
> Michael
> 
> 
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