With the increasing proliferation of broadband, more and more users are using Peer-to-Peer (P2P) protocols to share very large files, including software, multi-media files, and applications. This trend has exponentially increased traffic flows across a very wide area network.

If you are coping with excessive bandwidth consumption due to P2P traffic such as BitTorrent, eMule, eDonkey, DirectConnect, Kazaa, etc., conventional rate shaping techniques such as limiting bandwidth by TCP port n...