Re: Is it possible to Jam windows network neighbour?

[Nick Drage <nickd@metastasis.org.uk>]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:18:25AM -0400, Jason Opperisano wrote:

> > I am running Redhat Linux 9.0 machine for routing as well as
> > iptables firewall for my network serving win 98 clients. For
> > security reasons I do not want win 98 clinets to use pier to pier
> > for transfering files/data among them. In this case win 98 clients
> > do not need to talk to server.

> > Is it possible to Jam pier to pier network ? so that copying of
> > files from one win 98 client to other can be restricted.
> 
> a firewall can only filter traffic that passes through it.  if your
> clients are all sitting on a LAN together, there is no way for an
> upstream firewall to keep them from communicating with each other.

Not quite true, sort of, but we're into Firewall / IPS ( Intrusion
Prevention System ) territory here.  "Snort" *might* be able to deny
traffic on the network, failing that you're probably looking at
commercial software.

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