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Netflow Monitoring of IM & Skype Traffic

I've been tasked to report on traffic flows of Instant Messaging types of communications to include Skype/Vonage use. It certainly is not as simple as the request sounded coming down from mgmt; IM clients port hop, Skype uses ports 80 & 443, etc.

Has anyone looked at this problem and maybe has a template? Is using an URL or domain name an effective filter?

Running Orion 10, NTA 3.7

Pls/Thnx...Fred

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jswan

Some types of IM traffic can be identified by domain name.

Skype traffic is extraordinarily difficult to identify. I believe that in most cases it's only possible with a packet inspection engine that can do pretty advanced statistical heuristics. Not possible with NTA

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jswan

Some types of IM traffic can be identified by domain name.