[Cialug] Bandwidth Shapers

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Dec 17, 2007 12:30 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:

> On 12/17/07, Zachary Kotlarek <zach at kotlarek.com> wrote:
> > On Dec 17, 2007, at 11:41 AM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm OK with shaping by IP address, I just don't want to maintain the
> > > list of IP addresses myself - I'd rather pay to have someone else
> > > maintain the list.  I just want to click a checkbox next to something
> > > that says "limit facebook to 5Mb/s" and have it "just work" without me
> > > having to run a sniffer and figure out what IP addresses facebook's
> > > servers run from.  Same deal for myspace, youtube, etc.
> >
> > This may not be the solution you're looking for, but it's not as hard
> > as you think to maintain that list:
> >
> > Listen to all HTTP traffic
> > Record HOST headers
> > Record IP address
> > Record transfered data size
> > Sort that list by transfered data size
>
> The problems with this approach:
>


> This isn't really about technical know how - I know how all of this is
> done, I've done it in the past and I could do it now - I just don't
> have the time to do implement and manage this myself.  I want to pay
> someone to do it for me.
>
> (Actually, I'd rather not do any shaping of this sort at all, but it's
> not my call...).
>

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."

Doing a google search for n2h2 returned some interesting results including
some potentially useful advertisements.

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 ;-))

-- 
Matthew Nuzum
newz2000 on freenode
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://cialug.org/pipermail/cialug/attachments/20071217/9bf73d4e/attachment.htm