Re: What's everyone doing about Streaming?

d d wrote:
> I recently inherited an environment that allows
> streaming to virtually anywhere, and it is definitely
> impacting our bandwidth.  I could really use some
> advice on what to block, and what not to block.  I
> know that there are some legitimate streaming sources
> out there (microsoft, webX, etc), but I would like the
> ability to deny most of the video/audio streaming
> traffic generated by end users.  Thus far, I've only
> been able to come up with these 3 UDP protocols to
> block:
>
> 1558 UDP StreamWorks
> 7000 UDP VDOLive
> 7070 UDP RealAudio
>
> It seems like everyone does automatic shifting to port
> 80 or 8080, though, so is there anything further I can
> do on my firewalls to help minimize streaming?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Dave

I agree with Robert, the Packeteer Packetshaper is very good a 
controlling the streaming traffic.  I use it at work for this purpose 
and to control other application traffic as well.  Good luck.