[LARTC] Suggestions/Pointers on where to begin my search for a solution?

[Bill Blum]

Hi-
I'm working in the IT department of a small liberal arts university-- we're
getting *massacred* by P2P traffic.

Informal testing/probing indicates that about 60% of our traffic from the
dorms was P2P-- we've taken the initial step of hardlimiting the dorms to no
more than 40% of outgoing university bandwidth.  Also, we've blocked the
'standard' ports for KaZaa, Gnutella, etc. in our firewall/switch setup
(Cisco Catalyst 6500 between us and the net at large)....

However, the Powers That Be want a better, more effective solution---
without a performance hit for the VOIP phones on campus.

Any suggestions on what part of the FM I should be reading/etc, so that I
can make a better informed decision about how to proceed?

Regards,
Bill Blum

-- 
Bill Blum
Bill.Blum at gmail.com
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