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Gruntz

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From: Haskovo, Bulgaria

Registered: 2007-08-31

Posts: 291

Use Skype, but not torrents

Hi.

I am looking for a way to allow the users in my company to use skype, but not to be able to use torrents. We are using Skype to communicate, but the torrents are making a lot of traffic.

I was thinking to use Squid proxy. I can disallow the users to download *.torrent files, but I do not like that way of dealing with the problem. Do you have the same problem at your companies and how did you manage to solve it.

Regards.

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: Use Skype, but not torrents

There are two projects, l7-filter and ipp2p, which allow you to match p2p traffic and drop it using iptables. Both need kernel patching, though (edit: actually, ipp2p apparently doesn't).

Last edited by lucke (2008-09-29 11:03:09)