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Filtering out P2P traffic

Subject: Filtering out P2P traffic
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:20:33 +0800
Hello!

In an educational institution I use Solaris 10 on the gateway between internet and internal network. I would like to filter out P2P traffic. But since the P2P clients can use any port which is open for traffic, I would need to do content-based filtering.

Is possible to block P2P traffic with the IPFilter included in Solaris 10? I see in the IPFilter FAQ (http://www.phildev.net/ipf/ IPFques.html#ques36), that you can do "simple matching of content for TCP session startup" on the first 16 bytes. But that means I need to find out what to match for all P2P protocols. Also, I could not find on docs.sun.com if this kind of rules are supported in IPFilter integrated in Solaris 10.

I do not want to block anything else except P2P. There are many protocols which I would like to go though like SSH, VNC, RDC etc.

What options are there to build such filter on Solaris? Is there any other free/cheap option to do it? If not, is it possible to slow down P2P traffic via IPQoS?


Regards, Damjan

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