suppose i block through the traffic shapers means what will happen if user changes bit torrent port in his/her machine only he/her download torrent or bit torrent automatically changes the port number start downloading.please help me.
Thank you, Regards, Suresh On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Ian Bowers <iggd...@gmail.com> wrote: > savvy users will use a different port. if your goal is to say "we block > bit torrent", this shouldnt matter. if your goal is to actually block bit > torrent or successfully enforce security policy, this may not be sufficient. > > > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:32 AM, suresh suresh <suresh.notion...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> if we disable the bit torrent using traffic shapers.. bit torrent will be >> block or what will happen.please help me >> >> Thank you, >> >> Regards, >> Suresh >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Ian Bowers <iggd...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> pfsense is the freebsd, so one way or another you can install the snort. >>> there is a pfsense package for it though for easy installation and >>> maintenance. you may want to google IDS and how to tune it before deploying >>> it. IDS isn't something you want to walk into blind. >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:04 AM, suresh suresh < >>> suresh.notion...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> we can install the snort in pfsense 1.2.3? >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Ian Bowers <iggd...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> You won't find much success in trying to block bittorrent with a >>>>> firewall. Your best bet is to use IDS (eg: snort) or another sort of >>>>> categorization software or appliance to identify who is using bittorrent >>>>> and >>>>> deal with them at layer 8 via company security policy. Torrenting is one >>>>> place where you simply cannot deploy a fire-and-forget solution and hope >>>>> for >>>>> it to actually work. >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> -Ian >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:38 AM, suresh suresh < >>>>> suresh.notion...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi All, >>>>>> >>>>>> how to block the bit torrent in my nlan network.. and how to block the >>>>>> websites,and how to block the websites except some lan connection. please >>>>>> help me. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thank you, >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> suresh >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >
