On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Tusker 21 <tusker212@gmail.com> wrote:
Thans for all the comments and advise.
In my opinion. How do i take charge and manage a network in a simple and efficient way. At the moment our ISP is able to give us user based reports by IP and traffic since there is no proxy or firewall in place.
Torrents top the list, skype then http traffic. Objective is to block/limit torrents. commercial or open source any goes but the ideal is whatever works efficiently. From an ISP perspective, i am not sure if they are best to manage my network since altering or creating rules for different classes of traffic might not be so flexible.
[thread making sense once more so I'll jump back in and offer my 2 cents' worth] That's a start. Possibly your ISP place a cap on certain types of traffic for your subnet. I'm guessing whatever system they're using to classify your traffic may be able to throttle it. That said, I can imagine the management headache on the ISP side doing this as a centralized solution for individual customers. I know some gear we had at a previous ISP job allowed us to create accounts for users, and IIRC they could actually classify traffic on their link and create their own rules.
I have used pfsense and smoothwall before. but creating the rules was not fun.
That's great. But it wouldn't be fun without the pain, heh? BR, S