I'm surprised it isn't outsourced to some managed (hosting) provider, or a CDN.. Like Akamai or LLNW. It would surely be far more efficient for their purposes. Also, if you've planned your network correctly QoS/Shaping will not negatively effect your network. You always engineer your outer edge to take a beating. Sargun Dhillon 925.202.9485 deCarta sdhillon@decarta.com www.decarta.com -----Original Message----- From: Ernie Rubi [mailto:ernesto@cs.fiu.edu] Sent: Tue 9/30/2008 21:41 To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: 143.228.0.0/16 and house.gov Hi folks, just musing... From an ops perspective, wonder just how much traffic caused: "This morning, our engineers sounded the alarms ... and we have installed a digital version of a traffic cop. We enacted stopgaps that we planned for last night. We had hoped we didn't have to." --Jeff Ventura, communications director for the House's chief administrator. (from http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/30/congress.website/index.html) Don't .govs have enough b/w or at least ability to add b/w in order to satisfy their 'public outreach/information' role? (not a rhetorical question...hehe) It also seems to me that adding load balancing, firewall, throttling, etc methods for traffic shaping might actually make the problem worse by adding yet another layer(s) of hardware/software that may be prone to bottlenecking or overloading. whaddayathink? Ernie M. Rubi Network Engineer AMPATH/CIARA Florida International Univ, Miami