Re: [pfSense] blocking torrents and web based https proxies

2015-03-27 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 27/3/15 3:56 am, WebDawg wrote: May I ask why you would like to block it all? +1. It looks like the OP is looking for a technical solution to a social/political problem. I can understand it if your users are primary school children, but surely once your users are university age, you

Re: [pfSense] blocking torrents and web based https proxies

2015-03-27 Thread Ivo Tonev
You can block torrents with suricata. Works 100%. Install the package and activate all p2p rules. For web proxies you can use squid+(squidguard with http://www.urlblacklist.com/ ) and force everyone to use your proxy. On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:44 PM, Sean m...@thegeekclub.net wrote: Torrent

Re: [pfSense] blocking torrents and web based https proxies

2015-03-27 Thread RB
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 3:36 AM, Chris Bagnall pfse...@lists.minotaur.cc wrote: On 27/3/15 3:56 am, WebDawg wrote: May I ask why you would like to block it all? +1. It looks like the OP is looking for a technical solution to a social/political problem. I can understand it if your users are

Re: [pfSense] blocking torrents and web based https proxies

2015-03-26 Thread Sean
Torrent traffic: maybe with a good L7 filter (not tried this myself). But HTTPS proxies and SSL VPN's forget about it. It's a game of whack-a-mole. As soon as you squash one, three more will pop-up. You can't block SSL. You'd need to get a real web filtering solution and by that I mean a

[pfSense] blocking torrents and web based https proxies

2015-03-24 Thread Rizwan Saeed
Hi Guys, I am managing a 1000+ university network. pfsense is working fine. The only problem I have is that the students bypass all the security with web vpn's and free https proxies. So I would like to know that if there is an effective way to block https web proxies, web based VPN and