Articles tagged with p2p

1. Tired of ISP Traffic Shaping? Beat It!

   Posted on January 31, 2008 in Networking

   I've written a lot of posts about various methods for blocking <acronym title="Peer-to-Peer">P2P</acronym> traffic, especially with Cisco's Network Based Application Recognition (NBAR). Although these posts are probably of interest to smallish Internet Service Providers and administrators of business networks, they don't have much use for the average …

2. Installing PDLMs for Cisco NBAR

   Posted on December 17, 2007 in Networking

   I've talked about using Cisco <acronym title="Network-Based Application Recognition">NBAR</acronym> frequently (check the Related Posts section below for more articles). One thing I've never pointed out is that not all versions of Cisco <acronym title="Internetwork Operating System">IOS</acronym> come with all protocol descriptions built in.

   Not …

3. Cisco NBAR P2P Protocols

   Posted on October 08, 2007 in Networking

   The following are the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) protocols recognized by Cisco's NBAR Protocol Discovery.

   • bittorrent
   • directconnect
   • edonkey
   • fasttrack
   • gnutella
   • kazaa2
   • napster
   • winmx

   If I've missed any, leave a comment below or use the Slaptijack Contact Form to update me.

   Thanks!

4. Controlling Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Traffic with Cisco NBAR

   Posted on May 22, 2007 in Networking

   Is your network bandwidth being consumed by Peer-to-Peer (P2P) traffic? (Hint: If you don't know, it's time to fire up NBAR and do a little investigating.) One way to stop P2P traffic is to use an access-list to block traffic on the well-know P2P ports. Unfortunately, many P2P technologies no …