Re: stop bittorrents

2006-12-20 Thread HÃ¥kon Granlund
Josh Paetzel wrote: > 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: >>

Re: stop bittorrents

2006-12-15 Thread Josh Paetzel
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 bitt

Re: stop bittorrents

2006-12-14 Thread Baldur Gislason
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

Re: stop bittorrents

2006-12-14 Thread Ivo Vachkov
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 PROTECTE

Re: stop bittorrents

2006-12-14 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> 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.c

Re: stop bittorrents

2006-12-14 Thread Julian H. Stacey
"Benjamin Adams" wrote: > employees are killing the network with torrents. anyone know a company where > I can get a box to monitor traffic and kill torrents. Thanks > > PS Not looking to build a firewall this time. Instead of paying money for a box (More space, heat, electricity bill & fault lia

Re: stop bittorrents

2006-12-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 14, 2006, at 9:41 AM, Benjamin Adams wrote: employees are killing the network with torrents. anyone know a company where I can get a box to monitor traffic and kill torrents. Thanks PS Not looking to build a firewall this time. If you plan to restrict network traffic, then you're look

Re: stop bittorrents

2006-12-14 Thread Baldur Gislason
Get a faster network. Baldur On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 12:41:41PM -0500, Benjamin Adams wrote: > employees are killing the network with torrents. anyone know a company where > I can get a box to monitor traffic and kill torrents. Thanks > > PS Not looking to build a firewall this time. > _