Ports are not really the way to go. Most P2P clients now a days use
dynamic port allocation, so if you block port 33XX, they just change
which port they use. You need something that can block the protocol,
like fast track, etc. I am not sure if m0n0wall can do that.
On 1/25/07, Alex M <radiussupport at lrcommunications dot net> wrote:
> Hi ppl!
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> I decided that out users do toooooo much illegal downloading (at least that
> what I think, ppl cant just download 4.8Gb each day, and that # seams to be
> equal to the size of 1 DVD)
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> So I'm looking for the way to block traffic from most known P2P clients. I
> think this is possible by blocking their ports, but a) I don't know all the
> ports b) ppl can change their port #s. So is there any easy way to deal with
> it? Maybe through traffic shaper set some how max speed to 1kbps? Also can
> we do some blocking per user base?
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> Appreciate your suggestions!
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