RE: pb with P2P...

["Shanna Daly" <SDaly () securenet com au>]

Isnt that the point? To stop people using software that doesn't allow a
proxy configuration like most of the P2P programs?

S

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Whitehead [mailto:brian () whiteheadconsulting com] 
Sent: Friday, 11 April 2003 2:47 AM
To: Shanna Daly
Cc: dessrezo; Security-Basics@Securityfocus. "Com
Subject: RE: pb with P2P...

On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 18:25, Shanna Daly wrote:
> Hi 
>
> What about setting up a proxy and only allowing connections out the
> firewall on the proxy port?
>
> Shanna

The primary problem I see with that is that a lot of software does not
support proxy configuration.  I've had to go through this headache too
many times in the past.

Brian


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