On Monday 21 June 2004 13:36, Ralf Staudemeyer wrote: > Hi > > I have to manage a network with approx. 200 users, a 256kbit/s unmanaged > Internet connection and a 3Mbit/s unreliable managed Internet connection > (only http/ftp-proxy and ssh available). All users are in one Class C > Subnet with 512 IP-Addresses. 60% of the machines are Windows. The rest > are SUN and Linux. At the moment Windows viruses and p2p-traffic eats > most of our bandwidth. Wow. Subnets are your friend. Subnet if you can. <snip> > My question is if there are known running solutions out there that would > fit these aims? The Windows machines with their viruses give me a > headache. I do not want to enforce remote Windows patching and > virusscanner updating. It should also be taken into account that there > is nearly no money available for any special equipment. Best would be to > get this job done with a couple of old computers. I'd suggest social engineering and suggestion. See if you can get your users to clean up and tone down p2p. :) > Another question is that I want to know if it is advisable to split > traffic filtering and traffic management/monitoring. > > I would appreciate any help. > > Regards > Ralf > -- Jason Boxman Perl Programmer / *NIX Systems Administrator Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing | University of Florida http://edseek.com/ - Linux and FOSS stuff _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
