[c-nsp] Limiting bandwidth from specific source

Antoine Monnier mrantoinemonnier at gmail.com
Tue Oct 20 02:45:00 EDT 2015


thanks Vijay.

so just to clarify the problem is on some customer facing circuits.

Is there a way to identify "youtube" specific traffic compared to "all of
Google services" traffic? Does Youtube use specific IP ranges?



On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 8:42 AM, Vijay S <vijay.hcr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well Google has ggc program which will give you free Google peering you
> dont need to pay to Google or any service provider except connectivity cost.
>
> And to limit traffic from specific source you can use class based qos.
>
> Regards
> Vijay A.
> On Oct 20, 2015 12:08 PM, "Antoine Monnier" <mrantoinemonnier at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> We are running into capacity issues on some internet pipes and this is
>> affecting "business" traffic.
>> A quick analysis showed us that roughly 40% of traffic on that specific
>> pipe comes from Google-owned IP ranges.
>> We are guessing that most of it is Youtube and we are being asked to come
>> up with a solution to throttle that traffic. (Apparently making users sign
>> internet-use policy is not effective!)
>>
>> Is there a way to identify youtube specific traffic on an ASR1K purely
>> based on L3 info?
>>
>> And going more broadly, how are others handling such issues generally?
>>
>> (sure, we can upgrade the bandwidth if they have the money, but congestion
>> point is just going to move further down their internal WAN network)
>>
>>
>> Thanks
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