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How can I control what ppl use Inet bandwidth for in my LAN?

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starriol

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I work at a company where employes abuse of the right to have Internet.

We are going to implement a file server and router on a brand new, powerfull, Windows 2003 server PC.
Linux is not an option since I'm no expert.

My question is, if the PC handles the connections to Internet (working as the router), can I, with some program that works in that PC, asign a maximun of bandwitdh usage, allow only say port 25, 80, BY IP?

Let's say that John uses Internet to manage his personal website via FTP (some guy here actually DOES that!).
Can I allow him to use only port 80 and at a certain download maximun (say 2 KBytes /second)?

Any programs I should get, please list them.

Thanks a lot 🙂 !!!
 
there are a million ways this could be done...but any router/software with decent traffic shaping tools should do the job...i use smoothwall (linuxed based router OS...easy to use, i promise) but i suppose that isnt what your looking for...i'm not too familiar with windows-based tools...

anywho...if you block port 21...he could just change the ftp port to 80 and login through that... 😵...

you're obviously going to need some sort of proxy w/ built in blocking tools...although they could just use some other proxy... 😛
 
based on the server requirements, ISA looks like it's a decent slam dunk, (although it's a bit spendy)

proper HR management is the best option. Can him and make an example, doesn't take much to whip them into line.
 
You didn't say how many employees you have. If you haven't already purchased your Windows 2003 Server, and if you have less than 50 or so employees, then consider Windows Small Business Server 2003, Premium Edition.

SBS 2003 Premium Edition includes ISA Server 2004, which can quickly do what you want done. It can recognize and block FTP, for example, even when FTP isn't using standard ports. And it can decrypt encrypted traffic for examination, before re-encrypting it for transmission.

Or, just fire a couple of employees. 😉
 
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