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We have issues with people streaming radio stations, videos, and playlists as well as chatting on trillian, aol, msn etc. I was wondering how I would allocate only a certain amount of our bandwidth for these features so they don't eat up our resources without blocking them totally. We have Cisco routers and switches fyi.
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We have issues with people streaming radio stations, videos, and playlists as well as chatting on trillian, aol, msn etc. I was wondering how I would allocate only a certain amount of our bandwidth for these features so they don't eat up our resources without blocking them totally. We have Cisco routers and switches fyi.

port blocking for certain packets

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