Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] New to linux, need help.

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

> Hello Will,
>
> Thursday, July 22, 2004, 3:34:40 AM, you wrote:
>
> WB> I am setting up a Devil firewall router and I am doing pretty good.
> My boss
> WB> wants me do use it to stop Kazaa traffic over their network.  I am
> trying to
> WB> bandwidth throttle the Kazaa port 1214.   I was hoping to do this
> useing the
> WB> "tc qdisc" command but I cant see to issolate a port.
>
> WB> So if any one knows of a way to throttle or packet shape a speciffic
> port
> WB> that would really help  in keeping our bandwidth down.
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/iptables-p2p
>  About:
>  iptables-p2p is a P2P match module for iptables. It supports the
> detection of the following protocols: Fasttrack, eDonkey, Direct
> Connect, Gnutella, OpenFT, and BitTorrent. It can be used to limit or
> block P2P traffic.

This is the one I have on my list to be included in the 1.3 development
tree, but you'll have to wait for DL 1.4 to get it. (Except somebody send
us a patch ;-) )

> OR
>
>  http://freshmeat.net/projects/l7-filter/
> About: This project offers packet classifiers for the Linux QoS and
> Netfilter subsystems which classify packets based on application layer
> (OSI layer 7) data. This means that they are able to classify packets as
> HTTP, FTP, Gnucleus, Kazaa, etc., regardless of what port the services are
> run on. They complement existing classifiers that classify based on route,
> port numbers, etc.

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org