Categorizing network traffic?

[kingjos]

Hi everyone, I’m trying to configure my traffic shaper to filter as much traffic as it can and send similar types of traffic to its corresponding queues.  The problem I’m having is figuring out what ports certain types of traffic are using; some examples are flash video, streaming video, streaming music, p2p (torrent) traffic and so on; and then creating a rule that would send it to its corresponding queue.  Can anyone help explain some good tools to use and maybe how you would use those tools to get some answers?

Also, is there any development in the 1.3 traffic shaper regarding layer 7 filtering?

Thanks for all the help.

[eri--]

@kingjos:

Also, is there any development in the 1.3 traffic shaper regarding layer 7 filtering?

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