I think you'll be fighting a losing battle trying this with normal filters.
There are proxies that will tunnel kaazaa etc over port 80.. some new p2p
specifically work over port 80 to get round firewall blocks.

Because it's peer to peer, blocking addreses isnt really an option.. you'd
have a rather long deny list.

surfcontrol have a filter that may be worth a look at:
http://www.surfcontrol.com/products/im/IM_datasheet.pdf
although I doubt it would be viable for small networks.


Its certainly a problem that needs to be addresses.. kazaa & others can quite
literally bring a dsl connection to a standstill with a default
configuration.

would be interested to hear others approach to the problem.

Richard








-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 03 November 2003 17:00
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [gb-users] Blocking P2P Networks, spyware, etc


I'm looking for a standard set of rules/filters to enable for all of my
customers to help block all of these applications.  Does anyone have a
methodology that has been effective to do this?  Does anyone have a list of
IP addresses we can block access to that will help?  Will a content
filtering subscription successfully block these, or only help prevent
download of the apps?



Chris Green

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