Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-30 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:07:50 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah. Limewire is written in Java (iirc), which makes it extremely easy to port it to any system that can run java. for P2P sharing rtorrent (/usr/ports/net-p2p/rtorrent) works excellent if you only want

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-30 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:25:21 -0600 Andrew Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Limewire website says it has versions for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and others, including OS/2 and Solaris. furthermore, you can just download the source and make it run from within Eclipse (with some tweaks regarding

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
because historically ISPs used those ports for throttling. +1 . skype does the same thing. and it's p2p too , although a lot less so than limewire. well ther are excellent method to block skype when using HTTP proxy not NAT ;) (skype can do through proxy)

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Yeah. Limewire is written in Java (iirc), which makes it extremely easy to port it to any system that can run java. for P2P sharing rtorrent (/usr/ports/net-p2p/rtorrent) works excellent ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread Fbsd1
These applications have predefined ports they use to start up the bi-directional packet conversation. But them unsolicited packeted come in from other pc nodes to share data using a wide range of high port numbers. IPFW, IPF, and PF don't seem to have a rule option to allow packs in/out based

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread eculp
Fbsd1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: These applications have predefined ports they use to start up the bi-directional packet conversation. But them unsolicited packeted come in from other pc nodes to share data using a wide range of high port numbers. IPFW, IPF, and PF don't seem to have a

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread RW
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:40:27 +0800 Fbsd1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have inclusive firewall rule set which means only packets matching the rules are passed through. The inbound hight port numbers are blocked by design. How do other firewall users code rules to allow limewire to work? I

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 8:13 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm. Isn't life interesting. I would like to know how to block them and others without causing strange secondary problems. Actually a default pf configuration will let them pass unless I'm forgetting something important. ed I

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread eculp
Andrew Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 8:13 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm. Isn't life interesting. I would like to know how to block them and others without causing strange secondary problems. Actually a default pf configuration will let them pass unless I'm

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
sorry for asking but what are this limewire programs are? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry for asking but what are this limewire programs are? My unofficial take on it is that limewire is a peer-to-peer sharing application used by Windows, Mac OS X and Linux users to share files, usually music, often

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andrew Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 8:13 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm. Isn't life interesting. I would like to know how to block them and others without causing strange secondary problems. Actually a default pf configuration

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:54:43 -0600 Andrew Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry for asking but what are this limewire programs are? My unofficial take on it is that limewire is a peer-to-peer sharing

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread RW
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:54:43 -0600 Andrew Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry for asking but what are this limewire programs are? My unofficial take on it is that limewire is a peer-to-peer sharing

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread Ott Köstner
dick hoogendijk wrote: I know, I'm cynical here, but limewire is not all bad! ...and, BTW, Limewire port is readily available for FreeBSD: http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/ports/net-p2p/limewire LimeWire is a fast, easy-to-use file sharing program that contains no spyware, adware or other

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
My unofficial take on it is that limewire is a peer-to-peer sharing application used by Windows, Mac OS X and Linux users to share files, usually music, often copyrighted, over the internet. It is one of the fastest, most effective ways to spread viruses, trojans, spyware, etc. that's my

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
When people ask my advice about computers, I always include: Never use Limewire, or anything like it. just downloading/sharing files allows you to download viruses, but it's up to you to run them. well unless P2P program is really broken, or you are sharing executables. for sharing movies,

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread Fbsd1
dick hoogendijk wrote: My unofficial take on it is that limewire is a peer-to-peer sharing application used by Windows, Mac OS X and Linux users to share files, usually music, often copyrighted, over the internet. It is one of the fastest, most effective ways to spread viruses, trojans,

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:28:49 -0600 Andrew Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When the last culprit get's his computer back, he will find it running an operating system that is not supported by Limewire. DOS 6.0 ? :P it's java... The next time, he'll get it back without a network card. ouch,

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:52:16 + RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] It is one of the fastest, most effective ways to spread viruses, trojans, spyware, etc. The program does not use fixed ports, so the services are hard to block. In essence, the program gets the user to bypass

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread Michael Powell
Fbsd1 wrote: [snip] Limewire is a windows only application. So how can you say it runs on solaris which is a flavor Unix? Limewire is a Java program. It will run on any platform which has a working Java run time environment installed. It is definitely not Windows only. -Jason

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:40:27 +0800 Fbsd1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have inclusive firewall rule set which means only packets matching the rules are passed through. The inbound hight port numbers are blocked by design. How do other firewall users code rules to allow limewire to work? Hi, i

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Fbsd1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dick hoogendijk wrote: My unofficial take on it is that limewire is a peer-to-peer sharing application used by Windows, Mac OS X and Linux users to share files, usually music, often copyrighted, over the internet. It is one

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread APseudoUtopia
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Andrew Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Fbsd1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dick hoogendijk wrote: My unofficial take on it is that limewire is a peer-to-peer sharing application used by Windows, Mac OS X and Linux users to share