Jon's Network

In a big acquisition, some things are bound to be neglected. Take the Packetshaper forum at techexchange.packeteer.com for example. It’s spammed regularly. On a perhaps not unrelated note, packeteer.com is offline (500 error). I would have thought Blue Coat would just 301 redirect it to Bluecoat.com but what do I know?

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iShared, the nifty little WAFS product that Packeteer got when they bought Tacit Networks a couple years back, will likely be dropped by Blue Coat from what I have heard. Blue Coat mentioned that they planned on rejuvenating Packetshaper as a standalone product as well as integrating some Packetshaper technologies into the ProxySG appliances. Nothing [...]

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Packetshaper has a good GUI, but some things are just better done at the command line. There are now three ways to access the command line: Remote Login Utility – Use any that works with your OS. You can use Telnet or SSH. You might like SecureCRT for Windows, OpenSSH for Unix or use Terminal [...]

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Here is how Packeteer can be used to control traffic through third-party proxies. Suppose some of your employees have installed web proxy tools (such as proxifier, proxster, and proxyshare) that allow them to send traffic (such as KaZaA, Morpheus, and ICQ) through an HTTP tunnel. Since HTTP traffic (port 80) can get through the firewall, [...]

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