Posted: 1/2/2011 7:13:52 PM EDT
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Hello
I would like to stop/prevent users on my wireless network from downloading material from P2P programs, in particular FrostWire. I have a Linksys WRT120N Wireless router and am not sure how to go about this. Does anyone know how I can do this? TIA Steven. |
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do a search on bing/aol, whatever engine you prefer. type it in the way you have it in the thread, you'll likely get a load of solutions. 44 before you post this type of bullshit, please check what forum you're in. this is urban commandos, not GD. unless you have an answer, posting "google it yourself" is not acceptable. OP, it's difficult to block P2P programs as they use a wide range of ports that legitimate programs can also use as well as both TCP/UDP. IIRC limewire uses ports in the 6300-6400 range. best practice would be to block ALL outgoing ports and only open ports by exception, ie: 80 for http, 22 for SSH, etc also disable UPnP on the router. if you have the time, DD-WRT router firmware has a plugin to filter P2P traffic. i've never used it but it sounds like a good solution and DD-WRT is compatible with most consumer routers. |
| My first question would be are these users on your network wanted there by you? I would assume that you also wouldn't be using P2P programs either? If this is a simple matter of protecting your network from other users, just use a WPA personal password for your wireless router. |
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Hellbound gave good advice. It's been my experience that most residential routers don't really have decent egress filtering for port/protocols. You can use a content filtering gateway (that will do quite a bit more than you have described) for free if you have the time to set it up. Astaro Linux offers their product free to home users, install it on an old PC with two nic's and filter traffic through it. http://freshmeat.net/projects/asl/ |