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Detecting p2p/torrent/heavy bandwidth users in my lan

Hi, can you please share your best practices for detecting peer-to-peer /torrent/ http download users in a lan of 40 users?

The router is a Vigor 3300, and it seems that most of the time, there are 2300 active NAT sessions in the diagnostics page.

The users are on a windows 2003 domain network. all of them are using wired connections.

Any specific tips for chinese users? this network is in china.

Thank you
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thank you.. will look into ipp2p as well

 i have a modest budget because the problem is becoming too hard to ignore..

access list would be hard because usually employees have to visit several different manufacturer sites to compare prices, etc..

i will try the pslist command but it may be hard to do on 40 pc's once every hour.. will be lots of manual labor for me.

thanks!
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thank you, are there any packet inspecting devices you could recommend for smb's?

I will look into the batch files for the pslist solution :)

thanks!
we have a spare TZ170 sonicwall in case it can help...
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thanks, will try the sonicwall and see how it goes!

do you know if the TZ170 can manage a 4MB fiber dedicated internet connection?

Also if my subscription is expired can I re-start it?
also any how-to guides with ipp2p would be helpful, as a test, i can repurpose an old machine and see how it performs. please share any helpful guides. thanks