On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 08:31, Ryan Rodrigue <[email protected]> wrote: > There is not a 100% definite answer to this. What I do is open the ports I > need (80 for http, 25 for smtp, ect and then put a block all rule below > these. This usually works for 99% of the bit torrent traffic. The problem > is that PFsense blocks based on ports, bit torrent can be intelligent and > change ports. You could also do the traffic shaper and put bit torrent in a > very low spped queue, but I have never tried that.
pfSense 2.0 has the capability to categorize traffic at "layer 7", but even that isn't foolproof against bittorrent. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
