[geeks] P2P Monitoring / Mitigation

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

Doug McLaren wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 04:34:55PM +0100, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> 
> | Implement IP quota: If a student in a dorm leaches more then e.g. x MB /
> | week disable the corresponding switch port / MAC address.
> 
> Keep track of the bytes used by each address/port/MAC address and
> publish a list of the biggest users for all to see.
>

Many years ago when the Internet was just getting popular (1997ish) 
there was a story about USWest and how they were monitoring but not 
blocking URLs.

To show this, they started publishing at the end of each month the top 
ten URLs and the amount of traffic it consumed, in order to try to 
persuade people to not use these sites.

At the end of the second month, the traffic to the 1st month's Top Ten 
URLs was through the roof, as ... everyone in the office checked out 
what was the most popular content office-wide .

Not exactly equivalent, but I am just pointing out that you need to be 
careful in how you try to discourage people.

--Patrick