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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > > >-- > >Julian Stacey. BSD Unix C Net Consultancy, Munich/Muenchen > >http://berklix.com > >Mail Ascii, not HTML. Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz. > > http://berklix.org/free-software > >_______________________________________________ > >freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > > > -- > "UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to > understand the simplicity." Dennis Ritchie > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"