On Dec 17, 2007 12:30 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <<a href="mailto:jeff@ocjtech.us">jeff@ocjtech.us</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On 12/17/07, Zachary Kotlarek <<a href="mailto:zach@kotlarek.com">zach@kotlarek.com</a>> wrote:<br>> On Dec 17, 2007, at 11:41 AM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:<br>> ><br>> > I'm OK with shaping by IP address, I just don't want to maintain the
<br>> > list of IP addresses myself - I'd rather pay to have someone else<br>> > maintain the list. I just want to click a checkbox next to something<br>> > that says "limit facebook to 5Mb/s" and have it "just work" without me
<br>> > having to run a sniffer and figure out what IP addresses facebook's<br>> > servers run from. Same deal for myspace, youtube, etc.<br>><br>> This may not be the solution you're looking for, but it's not as hard
<br>> as you think to maintain that list:<br>><br>> Listen to all HTTP traffic<br>> Record HOST headers<br>> Record IP address<br>> Record transfered data size<br>> Sort that list by transfered data size
<br><br></div>The problems with this approach:<br></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">This isn't really about technical know how - I know how all of this is
<br>done, I've done it in the past and I could do it now - I just don't<br>have the time to do implement and manage this myself. I want to pay<br>someone to do it for me.<br><br>(Actually, I'd rather not do any shaping of this sort at all, but it's
<br>not my call...).<br></blockquote></div><br>There was an organization who did *blocking* of this type. They offered a service called n2h2 and they targeted schools but also served businesses. They've been acquired by a company called "secure computing" and the product has been renamed to "bess."
<br><br>Doing a google search for n2h2 returned some interesting results including some potentially useful advertisements.<br><br>As a warning, their service was proxy based, so it's usefulness might have been limited (to only 99% of the traffic you're likely concerned about ;-))
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