Hi Andrew,
I notice in this thread that you mention DPI and searching for P2P can use a lot of CPU resources.
I have about 40 rules and want to limit / stop as much P2P as possible. I was going to enable P2P filtering on each rule (one per user, each user with up to 5 devices), but after reading that thread I am concerned that the whole system will slow down.
I have 30mbps downstream and 3 Mbps up to the Internet (3 aggregated ADSL lines) that are pretty busy at times and usually up to about 100 clients through the BWM server. The host is win XP with a core 2 3G processor. Is this likely to significantly slow down the traffic when I enable DPI for P2P?
If this will slow things down, is there a way to nest the rules somehow so I have one master rule that does the P2P filtering then the other rules to limit speed / monthly quota etc for each user.