On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 08:31, Ryan Rodrigue <radiote...@aaremail.com> wrote:
> There is not a 100% definite answer to this.  What I do is open the ports I
> need (80 for http, 25 for smtp, ect and then put a block all rule below
> these.  This usually works for 99% of the bit torrent traffic.  The problem
> is that PFsense blocks based on ports, bit torrent can be intelligent and
> change ports.  You could also do the traffic shaper and put bit torrent in a
> very low spped queue, but I have never tried that.

pfSense 2.0 has the capability to categorize traffic at "layer 7", but
even that isn't foolproof against bittorrent.

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