Hello, Are you sure it has nothing to do with work vs play well you are at work ? I have worked for companies where MSN Messenger was widely used it was disrupting work. Projects where not getting done, some people actually asked managers to "hold on a sec" so they could finish their messages. What about the cost of bandwidth ? If your company has to pay X number of dollars a month because your employee are downloading music from kaza -- which may be illegal depending on where you work and against company policy. Plus there are ways of allowing needed work related p2p connections after blocking the rest. Michael. On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:00:45 -0500 (EST) Bob Keyes <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It's amazing how many people seem so anxious to block p2p. They have this > idea that nothing but mp3s of madonna and metallica are on it. Far from > the case. > > Wouldn't it be better to just make sure that traffic is prioritized and > handled accordingly? for instance, dns traffic highest, followed by ssh > traffic, etc. lowest being the bulk fiel transfers of p2p, ftp, and large > http transfers. > > I know of several ways to detect p2p transfers, but I am not going to tell > you, because I don't want to find some overzealous ISP administrator > blocking my Debian updates. > > oh, by the way, http://xa.net/p2ping > > > > > > -- Michael Gale Network Administrator Utilitran Corporation
