Network traffic

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Brian

I would like to use the Groove program in a very large network but I am
wondering what the amount of Network traffic is for Groove to always be on
the lookout for new data in the workspaces.
I heard that it shutdown one buildings network when they tried to do an
evaluation on the product. Is anyone familiar with this program taking over
a network?
 
M

Mark Smith

Hi Brian -

I don't think Groove works like that.

I've heard of one case where Groove traffic was a significant component of
all network traffic but this was aypical use where lots of people were
installing Groove at the same time on a network constructed out of (almost)
random collections of routers and laptops.

On a normal network Groove tends to reduce certain kinds of traffic such
changes to large files since only changed parts of the file are sent rather
than the whole thing. Groove's presence traffic contributes a negligible
overhead.

This paper may help clarify some of the issues:
http://www.groove.net/pdf/GrooveInAustereEnv.pdf
 
C

c1sbc

Having done this quite a few times - a 'normal' Groove deployment in an
enterprise would hardly bring the network to its knees..

But you may have a deployment where 'innoncent/ignorant' users drop a few
large files (100's mb) into the Groove File tool ALL AT THE SAME TIME and
that may give your network some hiccups.
Overall, I doubt this happening in an evaluation - where in most cases, are
a handful of users, unless of course, they want to 'sabotage' the evaluation..
(that's known to happen has well)..

SBC
 
A

Aaron

c1sbc is correct. Normal groove traffic will include checks with that users
relay server as well as checks to that users' contacts relay servers. Over a
large network that kind of traffic would be negligible.

Where you will see the issue is if there are large amounts of data
added/removed from a work space or file sharing space and it's compounded
more if that space has a large number of members. What happens is that when
that data is added Groove will then begin to send out the changes/data to all
the end points (other members of that workspace). For example: a user adds a
800mb of photos to a workspace that has 40 members. You now have 800mb of
data being sent out to each member of that space.
 

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