On Sat, 9 Jun 2018 23:10:04 -0700 Russell Senior <[email protected]> wrote:
> Our Personal Telco firmware (based on OpenWrt/LEDE) has a dumb > bittorrent blocker, and we include iftop and tcpdump as management > tools. If you know someone is doing something they shouldn't be, it > isn't very difficult to figure out which client is responsible, and > then you can black-hole them and wait until they come to you and you > can have a gentle conversation with them about appropriate and > inappropriate usage. If it's an internal network, it should be even > easier to have that conversation. > > On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 10:04 AM, Bill Barry <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 3:20 PM Mike C. <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I'm doing some volunteer IT work for a small, local non-profit > > > that has a few Free Geek Linux Mint computers connected to a > > > Zyxel modem w. 10 mb/s CenturyLink internet connection. > > > > > > In the past they've had the typical problems of inappropriate > > > content and piracy and have received the cease & desist letters > > > from CenturyLink. > > > > > > The Zyxel modem doesn't have much in the way of features & > > > functionality for content filtering and service or web site > > > blocking. > > > > > > Just using your current setup you can get some content filtering > > > using > > DNS. Opendns provides a free service to do that. > > https://www.opendns.com/home-internet-security/ > > > > I don't know if that will help with the piracy usage though. > > > > Bill > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug Lots of people use the BitTorrent protocol for legitimate uses too. -- _______________________________________ / Wilcox's Law: \ | | | A pat on the back is only a few | \ centimeters from a kick in the pants. / --------------------------------------- \ \ /\ /\ //\\_//\\ ____ \_ _/ / / / * * \ /^^^] \_\O/_/ [ ] / \_ [ / \ \_ / / [ [ / \/ _/ _[ [ \ /_/ _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
