Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 02:25:32 +0000 From: Baldur Gislason <baldur@foo.is> To: Ivo Vachkov <ivo.vachkov@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Benjamin Adams <freebsdworld@gmail.com> Subject: Re: stop bittorrents Message-ID: <20061215022532.GJ1038@gremlin.foo.is> In-Reply-To: <f85d6aa70612141608i3df93d3cp1b2a6e7d8b1e13e7@mail.gmail.com> References: <6199c3dc0612140941n48832de0id6710f3f3e98345d@mail.gmail.com> <200612141821.kBEILi97090287@fire.jhs.private> <200612141906.kBEJ6Mta090540@fire.jhs.private> <f85d6aa70612141608i3df93d3cp1b2a6e7d8b1e13e7@mail.gmail.com>
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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 <jhs@flat.berklix.net> 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 "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > -- > "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 "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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