How to limit P2P users? I come from WinRoute, please help

[kdiamond]

Hi

I come from Winroute. I love the idea of trafic priorities and would like to get more into it.

Ok, I have ADSL 4mb internet connection. I have about 20 users, some of them use P2P clients. As you know P2P clients can easily go over 1000 connections even if client max connection's are limited. The result is ofcourse users not be able to browse or check mail if too many connections opened.

In winroute I simple limit the user connections to max 200. So if user goes over 200 connection, he can not browse, but everyone else can, so it becames his personal problem and he's forced to lower the connections if he wants to browse.

How do you deal with that?

What about trafic priorities.
Rule selection method: First Matching Rule
Rule 1 = set port 80 traffic to Level 1
Rule 2 = set all traffic to LEVEL 5

Will this prioritise browsing over P2P connections?

Best Regads,
Dali

[jamesc]

*I will also get a second opinion on this.

You can’t limit the amount of connections per user in WinGate. That will probably be added in a later release.

I investigated a similar support request the other day which I am yet to hear feedback on. Their scenario was 8 computers using the NAT connection method playing a game called World of WarCraft (WoW). If you change the port number at the bottom of this image from 3274 to 80 then you can start finding your optimum settings. Maybe make another one for 443 (SSL).

If you are using the proxy connection method, you may also need to use the option Apply to traffic to / from the local machine.

[kdiamond]

Hi Jamesc.

Thx for a reply.

So you prioritized 3274 traffic, right?
What's the priority of all other non specified trafic?
How exastly WG prioritize traffic? By limiting connections, bandwidth?

I did it like this:
Don't know if it's OK. Can you please look at it.

Rule Selection Method: Prefering Maximum priority

1. Level 1 for FTP (port 21)
2. Level 3 for Web Brwesing (port 80)
3. Level 5 for all trafic (because of P2P ports).

The idea is to keep all trafic (P2P) to lowest possible priority and to give FTP (21) and Web Browsing(80) higher priority, so even if all use P2P, FTP and Web browsing will still be possible.

Am I on the right way?
Thank you

Br,
Dali