Re: blocking p2p traffic

[Helder Miguel Rodrigues <hmgr () netcabo pt>]

Take a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/iptables-p2p/

I think that is this that you want!

Bye

Steve Paine wrote:
> That's a hard one to achieve. But its possible to knock most of the
> traffic on the head as the start-up protocols are often the same.
> However, I'm a believer that ISP's shouldn't block P2P traffic because
> it will spur the development of new protocols which are harder to track
> and then you're back at square one. (Personally I think P2P is great and
> I'm happy to see new protocols being developed.)
>
>
> Someone posted a set of Checkpoint Firewall rules for blocking common
> P2p protocols recently. I'll see if I can find it and re-post it. Send
> me a personal reminder if you don't see it on this forum in the next few
> days.
>
> Steve.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Deshpande, Yashodhan [mailto:ydeshpande () ipolicynet com] 
> Sent: 04 March 2004 01:24
> To: focus-ids () securityfocus com
> Subject: blocking p2p traffic
>
>
> Hi,
>
>     Any information regarding IDS/IPS software available which blocks
> p2p traffic? Or in general any information regarding how to identify p2p
> application is running and may be configure firewall to block such
> traffic. In general it is observed that such applications do not work on
> = single port and do port hopping. How to block them?
>
> Any inputs on the same would be appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Yashodhan
>
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