[unisog] Packeteer anyone?

[Scott Briening]

We've used it with great success.  The newer models support up to 2000 
dynamic partitions, which means that if you have about 2000 users 
accessing the internet at one time, the bandwidth will be equally 
divided amoung them.  (Instead of one big chunk to entire class - 
reshall network class for example, this allows fair distribution of 
bandwidht within the class.)

Someone in another response mentioned something about collecting traffic 
flow data.  For this I'd recommend a Netflow box - very easy to use and 
very interesting statistics.  Check out these guys and their competitors.

If you have any questions, just let me know! :)

-scott briening
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UNIX/Linux/SAN/Net Systems Engineer
Jr. Oracle DBA
The College of New Jersey


e.kaminski wrote:
> We are looking into possibly implementing Packeteer in order to control our
> residence hall network activities. Layers 8 and 9 of the OSI model don't
> allow for more stringent policing. Does any one have any pros or cons of
> this technology? We have limited bandwidth and need to curb excessive use by
> some residents, especially using P2P.
> 
> Thanks.
> Eryk
> 
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