Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:27:43 -0600 From: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Cc: Benjamin Adams <freebsdworld@gmail.com> Subject: Re: stop bittorrents Message-ID: <200612150927.43706.josh@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <20061215022532.GJ1038@gremlin.foo.is> References: <6199c3dc0612140941n48832de0id6710f3f3e98345d@mail.gmail.com> <f85d6aa70612141608i3df93d3cp1b2a6e7d8b1e13e7@mail.gmail.com> <20061215022532.GJ1038@gremlin.foo.is>
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On Thursday 14 December 2006 20:25, Baldur Gislason wrote: > Most of the torrent clients do encrypted sessions nowadays so they > really are impossible to detect by simply parsing the packets. > > Baldur > > On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 02:08:41AM +0200, Ivo Vachkov wrote: > > I'm not familiar with bittorrent protocol but I guess you can > > always implement simple L7 filter using ipfw rules to divert > > packets to a custom daemon that can parse the data and drop > > torrent packets. I did something similar for ICQ several years > > ago. > > > > On 12/14/06, Julian H. Stacey <jhs@flat.berklix.net> wrote: > > >> Thus you'd still achieve your ideal of > > >> avoiding spending money rather than your time on it :-) > > > > > >Sorry, I wrote that wrongly, I meant: > > > Thus you'd still spend money & still save spending your own > > > work time on it. > > > > > >-- Probably the simplest pain free solution I can think of is to get a linksys WRT54G-L and flash it with DD-WRT firmware. Comes with a nifty drop-down menu in the access control page that allows you to block things by service. Not entirely sure *how* it works, but it seems to be very effective at blocking at the application layer....including bt and even skype. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel
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