https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/stop-torrent/m-p/4626953#M40704 Hi there <BR />Is there any way / program /device that is capable of stopping torrent traffic?<BR />I know that blocking ports 6881-9 is useless as user can reconfigure his torrent client to use different ports.<BR />Regards<BR />Peter Sun, 02 May 2010 04:27:07 GMT Piotr Kirklewski 2010-05-02T04:27:07Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/stop-torrent/m-p/4626953#M40704 Hi there <BR />Is there any way / program /device that is capable of stopping torrent traffic?<BR />I know that blocking ports 6881-9 is useless as user can reconfigure his torrent client to use different ports.<BR />Regards<BR />Peter Sun, 02 May 2010 04:27:07 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/stop-torrent/m-p/4626953#M40704 Piotr Kirklewski 2010-05-02T04:27:07Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/stop-torrent/m-p/4626954#M40705 Hi Peter,<BR /><BR />&gt;&gt; Is there any way / program /device that is capable of stopping torrent traffic?<BR />As you have rightly pointed out, blocking applications based on port wont help<BR />as the application can configure someother port for its work.<BR /><BR />Best solution would be to check all the packets and then decide whether it should be blocked or not.<BR /><BR />You can refer these -<BR /><A href="http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/</A><BR /><A href="http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-linux-iptables-block-p2p-traffic.html" target="_blank">http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-linux-iptables-block-p2p-traffic.html</A><BR /><BR />Hope this helps.<BR /><BR />Regards,<BR />Murali Sun, 02 May 2010 04:49:16 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/stop-torrent/m-p/4626954#M40705 P Muralidhar Kini 2010-05-02T04:49:16Z