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Re: [TCLUG:14253] Napster and bandwidth allocation



>How hard is it for a sysadmin to do some kind of bandwidth shaping directed
>at Napster specifically? That would seem like a good solution. A bit like
>the old Russian maxim, "trust, but verify".
        An admin friend of mine decided not to *ban* streaming audio/video
at his workplace; he just set the priority of that traffic really low, so it
was nearly unusable during business hours. 
        not sure exactly how he did it; but that's what he told me.

Carl Soderstrom
System Administrator    307 Brighton Ave. 
Minnesota DHIA	        Buffalo, MN	
carls@agritech.com      (612) 682-1091