Blocking P2P and torrent sites

[sparks31]

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@istoryanimo,, Thanks bro.

[Visual C#]

A combination of effective Group Policy settings, firewall rules, and HOSTS file entries will deter any possible filesharer in your cafe.

[moyti]

Guys p2p is sharing,, If you take ,, you share. That's how it works. Just reduce the uploads to limits. When you block,, and try visiting again.. Your IP address can be trace and that will be the start of receiving lots of viruses,spams,pop-ups, etc. from p2p users of that site.

thanks for your info bro. but we all know that P2P is sharing. yet somehow there are limitations to it especially on the business side. you just can't allow abuses. you can't have em' all. what i'm trying to ask is to maximize that "limitation." you got to share bandwidth too right?!

[superpaul]

i agree with victor! but those were just secondary things to prevent file sharing

what i can suggest is you should prevent users / clients from installing any applications on the box.
Some iNet cafe's did that already.

what do you think??

[sploy]

i agree with victor! but those were just secondary things to prevent file sharing

what i can suggest is you should prevent users / clients from installing any applications on the box.
Some iNet cafe's did that already.

what do you think??

agreeing with superpaul... if you only have a manageable number of workstations, might as well do what superpaul said. but if you have hundreds in a site (which i guess you won't have that much, just for the sake of discussion) and you have a firewall, you can just block the file type of torrent they are downloading. i.e. *.torrent.

Tried doing this on a site with at least a hundred workstations on a UNIX based firewall, it's doing really fine.. Just a little work on a big network.

[zchi]

palit ug appliance nga mga proxy server..pareho sa bluecoat..

[coolnezz]

i you still want P2P in ur iCafe and Gaming at the same time, you should invest on a router that has QoS or Bandwidth Management. Have each PC with static IPs, or get the ports and filter it from there.

[chocomai]

unfortunately some (many) peer to peer clients jump from one port to another... hence blocking ports is practically useless

makalagot jud.. wais jud.

[r0mm3L]

unfortunately some (many) peer to peer clients jump from one port to another... hence blocking ports is practically useless

makalagot jud.. wais jud.

ngek! mura d i ym hmmmm

[bishop__]

for windows 2k servers, i use kerberos before, for linux/unix, u can use squidproxy+firewall