[plug] firewalling streaming video/music?

[W.Kenworthy]

Have a look at the L7 filter:
http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/L7-HOWTO-Netfilter

*  net-misc/l7-filter
      Latest version available: 1.4
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of downloaded files: 75 kB
      Homepage:    http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net
      Description: Kernel modules for layer 7 iptables filtering
      License:     GPL-2


Also IPP2P may help.
*  net-firewall/ipp2p
      Latest version available: 0.7.4-r2
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of downloaded files: 16 kB
      Homepage:    http://www.ipp2p.org/index_en.html
      Description: Netfilter module for dealing with P2P Applications.
      License:     GPL-2

BillK


On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 18:27 +0800, Joel at Plug wrote:
> Has anyone on here discovered a way of firewalling streaming video/music?
> 
> Unlike IM there's no authentication ports that can be blocked and no 
> central website/s that can be blocked.
> 
> I've added the IP addresses of a couple of radio stations that I've seen 
> some of the staff use but that's going to be a lot of work.
> 
> Basically just trying to reduce the amount of bandwidth used in non-work 
> related activities - in our particular work environment there's no need 
> for streaming services.
> 
> Joel
> 
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