Re: stop bittorrents

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

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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.

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Thanks,

Josh Paetzel
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