Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Package name : ipp2p
Version : 0.8.2
URL : http://www.ipp2p.org/
License : GPL
Description : netfilter/iptables module to identify peer-to-peer
(P2P) traffic
From the web page:
The goal of the IPP2P project is to identify peer-to-peer (P2P) data
in IP traffic. For this purpose we extended the iptables/netfilter
architecture by a new matching module. Thereby IPP2P integrates itself
easily into existing Linux firewalls and it's functionality can be
used by adding appropriate filter rules.
IPP2P uses suitable search patterns to identify P2P traffic thus
allowing the reliable identifcation of traffic belonging to many P2P
networks. Once identified one may handle P2P traffic in different ways
- dropping such traffic, putting into low priority classes or shaping
to a given bandwidth limit is possible. Reducing costs, freeing
network ressources and therefore improving network performance is
often the result of using IPP2P.