Firewall/NAT

Hi,
Can anyone advise how to block peer 2 peer download?

Thanks,
aemkay

What do you mean by "peer 2 peer" download? Torrents? This will be very difficult to do due to the ability of torrent clients to use pretty much any port. To block torrents, you would have to inspect each packet, something M0n0wall is not capable of doing.

Exactly that is my problem. There is no 'pattern' (like specifc port, etc) for torrent connection?

Unfortunately, no, there is no pattern (ports or otherwise) that will allow you to block torrents with m0n0wall.

Unfortunately, no, there is no pattern (ports or otherwise) that will allow you to block torrents with m0n0wall.

thanks, much appreciated.

You can have range of IP numbers like 192.168.1.0 - 192.168.1.15 you open specific ports to the internet. Let say:
110,443,53,21,993,2049,25,995,22,80,8074,587

Meaning a user can brows http, use FTP, download/upload e-mails.
What he will no do is connecting to port 6xxxx while using torrent tools.


But there is always something..:
- you need to pay attention to open ports for skype and so on
- bittorent programs can use port 80 to overcome the blocking

Nevertheless what i recommending will help i 90% of cases