Hi Brian,

Can we use NBAR on the gateway router to prevent internal users from watching video streams from any video web site (like Youtube.com)?

Ahmed

Hi Ahmed,

Yes, NBAR can be used to apply application based filters such as blocking youtube.com traffic. To accomplish this we can categorize traffic based on the HTTP hostname. Next we will create a policy-map that matches the youtube.com class and drops the traffic. Lastly the policy is applied outbound to the Internet. Syntax-wise this would read:

R1#
class-map match-all YOUTUBE
 match protocol http host "*youtube.com*"
!
policy-map DROP_YOUTUBE
 class YOUTUBE
   drop
!
interface FastEthernet0/0
 description TO INTERNET
 service-policy output DROP_YOUTUBE

NBAR for HTTP can also be used to match based on URL string or IANA MIME type. For more information see:

Network-Based Application Recognition and Distributed Network-Based Application Recognition