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From: Andrew Beverley <andy@andybev.com>
To: J Webster <jw.jwebster@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to restrict torrent download  ?
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:27:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1329503239.30413.33.camel@andrew-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F3D60A6.2040803@gmail.com>

On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 20:01 +0000, J Webster wrote:
> > Personally I use the rather brutal technique of looking for several
> > connections to high port numbers from a single client. I dare say there
> > are false positives, but it works for me.
> >
> > The details for that are here:
> >
> > http://andybev.com/index.php/Fair_traffic_shaping_an_ADSL_line_for_a_local_network_using_Linux

[Top-posting fixed]

> Will this work on CentOS 5?
>

No, according to this post:

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-June/059656.html

> How important are the kernal and iptables versions to implement it?
> 

You'll need connlimit and ipset. Connlimit became part of the stable
kernel in 2.6.23 (thanks Jan). I can't remember whether ipset has made
it into the stable kernel yet, but it certainly won't be in the kernel
of CentOS 5 (unless it's available as a separate package).

Andy



  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-17 18:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-16 10:39 How to restrict torrent download ? J. Bakshi
2012-02-16 10:55 ` Rob Sterenborg (lists)
2012-02-16 11:03   ` Azfar Hashmi
     [not found]     ` <20120216171502.78212a3e@shiva.selfip.org>
     [not found]       ` <20120216171909.3a3cd4c1@shiva.selfip.org>
2012-02-16 12:01         ` Rob Sterenborg (lists)
2012-02-16 16:07           ` Azfar Hashmi
2012-02-16 16:35             ` Tom Eastep
2012-02-16 17:03           ` Andrew Beverley
2012-02-16 18:00             ` Rob Sterenborg (Lists)
2012-02-16 18:33               ` Andrew Beverley
     [not found]                 ` <20120217102230.1b35b535@shiva.selfip.org>
2012-02-17  7:22                   ` Andrew Beverley
2012-02-16 18:28             ` Lloyd Standish
2012-02-17 18:20               ` Andrew Beverley
2012-02-17 20:31                 ` Lloyd Standish
2012-02-17 20:46                   ` Andrew Beverley
2012-02-16 20:01             ` J Webster
2012-02-17 18:27               ` Andrew Beverley [this message]
     [not found]           ` <20120217171338.037087c5@shiva.selfip.org>
2012-02-17 11:53             ` Rob Sterenborg (lists)
     [not found]               ` <20120218210630.3bdd7683@shiva.selfip.org>
2012-02-22  5:58                 ` Rob Sterenborg (Lists)
     [not found]                 ` <20120224103913.4bd282ff@shiva.selfip.org>
2012-02-24  5:59                   ` Rob Sterenborg (Lists)

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