On Friday 08 March 2002 10:45 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> Our connection to the Internet these days is getting bogged down as
> quite a few users are using P2P progs to share/download files. Initially
> the problem was just one: Kazaa. We were able to stop user access to
> Kazaa by blocking the port 1214. Users currently use a whole set of
> filesharing programs.. Morpheus, Kazaa, Gnutella, Bearshare etc. etc.
> Yes, it is possible to keep track of the programs being used, block each
> one individually etc.
>
> Would there be some kind of a generic way to block such P2P progs?
>
> Regards
> Dhar
You could just go ahead and block everything outgoing but port 80,21 and a
few others, it would kill most, if not all of the filesharing mechanisms,
along with just about every other service but the web and ftp =P, depending
on what this is for it may or may not be a workable solution.
