Re: Blocking streaming audio and video

[George Karaolides <george@karaolides.com>]

Hi,

Sorry to be posting a followup to my own question, but I think I have a
solution for this.

I found some ipchains rules at:

http://nw-hoosier.dyndns.org/rlohman/linux/firewall/es-block.html

and put these in post-processing rules files for ipmasq, separately for
internal and external interfaces.

It remains to be seen how effective these are.

Best regards,

> This may well be a bit off-topic, but how do I block users on the LAN from
> accessing streaming audio and/or video data from the Internet and filling
> up the Internet line?
> 
> I'm running Debian GNU-Linux 2.2r3 (potato) on the gateway.
> 
> I use the ipmasq Debian package to set up masquerading and firewall rules
> between our internal nets and our ISDN dialup Internet connection.
> 
> Thanks and best regards,
> 

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