[K12OSN] OT: Stopping P2P sharing

[Jim Kronebusch]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:55:47 -0700, Mel Wade wrote
> We are looking for a solution to stop file sharing on student owned
> computers on our network.  Anyone have a solution?

I have stopped it before with IPCop and with Endian Firewall.  If I remember Endian was
a little easier to do so with where with IPCop I had to specify the ports manually that
I wanted to block.  Both are standalone distros that can be installed on a separate
machine and put in front of your network as a firewall.  Unfortunately for me, it was
decided that these students needed to fileshare.  So my excellent solution had to be
scrapped.  I don't remember much details but if you look at the distros it should be
fairly simple.

Jim

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