On our main SSID, we drop the applications listed below. Those were the ones 
our security group wanted us to drop. We have this on our WiSM2s which have 
about 800 WAPs each. We have not seen any issues related to high CPU so far. 
That's all the information I can give you. I hope this helps.

I wish I could actually give stats on how many times the controller has 
actually detected and dropped those applications, but the requires another toys 
we don't have money for.

Encryptep-emule
Bittorrent
Encrypted-bittorrent
Edonkey-static
Gnutella

Hector Rios
Louisiana State University

From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2014 1:26 PM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] AVC on Cisco WLC- Blocking P2P (Revisiting)

Re-opening the topic of using controllers to classify and control traffic- in 
particular P2P. I'm doing analysis of our 5508 WLCs' ability to perhaps replace 
a dedicated appliance solution.

I see that we're not exactly 1 for 1 on services recognized by WLC compared to 
the dedicated appliances, but I'm more concerned with what might happen to a 
busy WLC with 500 APs and thousands of clients if we ask it to start dropping a 
couple of dozen P2P protocols. For those already doing this sort of thing- did 
CPU climb appreciably when you turned the drop function? Any issues noted? Our 
controllers tend to coast for CPU and memory, but I gotta ask.

Also, does anyone know if the 5760s can yet "control" or are they still limited 
to the AV in AVC? Any idea if 5760 protocol packs (or whatever the signatures 
are called on the 5760) are the same as that for the 5508 WLC?

Thanks-

Lee



Lee Badman
Wireless/Network Architect
ITS, Syracuse University
315.443.3003
(Blog: http://wirednot.wordpress.com)



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