stop torrent

[Piotr Kirklewski]

Hi there
Is there any way / program /device that is capable of stopping torrent traffic?
I know that blocking ports 6881-9 is useless as user can reconfigure his torrent client to use different ports.
Regards
Peter

[P Muralidhar Kini · Accepted solution]

Hi Peter,

>> Is there any way / program /device that is capable of stopping torrent traffic?
As you have rightly pointed out, blocking applications based on port wont help
as the application can configure someother port for its work.

Best solution would be to check all the packets and then decide whether it should be blocked or not.

You can refer these -
http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-linux-iptables-block-p2p-traffic.html

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Murali