Comments on: Firewall Ubuntu Desktops http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/firewall-ubuntu-desktops/ A LAMP in the Samsara Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:24:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: bodhi.zazen http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/firewall-ubuntu-desktops/comment-page-1/#comment-1443 bodhi.zazen Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:51:14 +0000 http://blog.bodhizazen.net/?p=765#comment-1443 Blocking torrents is not easy as basically the torrent clients are designed to evade such attempts on your part. You have been given some good advice in your thread, I would point you at this thread. http://serverfault.com/questions/27088/using-linux-iptables-how-to-block-torrents-or-any-p2p-protocols I believe the best solution is to use a proxy server for web access, ie something like squid. So, if you are on a low budget, configure a hardware firewall (which is nothing but an inexpensive box with two network cards) and install a firewall specific distro + squid. You would then configure the firewall to allow as much internal traffic as you wish, but restrict outbound traffic to http and https (ports 80 and 443) which would be proxied by squid. Yes it can still be abused. http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch32_:_Controlling_Web_Access_with_Squid http://www.linuxjunkies.org/html/Bandwidth-Limiting-HOWTO.html Blocking torrents is not easy as basically the torrent clients are designed to evade such attempts on your part.

You have been given some good advice in your thread, I would point you at this thread.

http://serverfault.com/questions/27088/using-linux-iptables-how-to-block-torrents-or-any-p2p-protocols

I believe the best solution is to use a proxy server for web access, ie something like squid.

So, if you are on a low budget, configure a hardware firewall (which is nothing but an inexpensive box with two network cards) and install a firewall specific distro + squid.

You would then configure the firewall to allow as much internal traffic as you wish, but restrict outbound traffic to http and https (ports 80 and 443) which would be proxied by squid.

Yes it can still be abused.

http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch32_:_Controlling_Web_Access_with_Squid

http://www.linuxjunkies.org/html/Bandwidth-Limiting-HOWTO.html

]]> By: Live http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/firewall-ubuntu-desktops/comment-page-1/#comment-1442 Live Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:44:08 +0000 http://blog.bodhizazen.net/?p=765#comment-1442 Hi, how do I block torrents from our home / office network? I've already posted my question here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1373079 Thanks for making such a nice blog. Hi, how do I block torrents from our home / office network? I’ve already posted my question here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1373079

Thanks for making such a nice blog.

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