The short of it is you need a layer 7 packet filter to block bittorrent correctly. https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=42623 If your router can't do packet inspection you can't block bittorrent with your router.
You can get around this by essentially blocking everything. Setup a squid server and disable your default gateway on your network. all internet traffic goes through the proxy. Christopher Fisk On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Winterlight <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm trying to block employees or anybody else from using my router to > download torrents. It is a separate router, wireless WPA2 and wired, off my > primary router, with a different IP that I make available to them, friends, > and family. I just want to make sure nothing goes on intentionally, or not, > that is going to cause me problems. > > m > > > > At 12:58 PM 2/28/2011, you wrote: >> >> There isn't one - torrents can use any port. And there are plenty of >> legitimate uses for torrents - Blizzard uses BitTorrent to download updates >> for its games - so completely blocking them may break some things. >> >> What is it you are trying to do? >> >> ----------- >> Brian >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 2011-02-28, at 3:53 PM, Winterlight <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > What port would I block on my router (home class) to prevent people from >> > downloading torrents? thanks >> > > >
