Re: How to disable mIRC Chat

[Georgi Alexandrov <georgi.alexandrov@gmail.com>]

Gabriel wrote:

>On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 15:17:33 +0200, Myanmar Linux Boy
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>>Dear All,
>> I am new to linux.
>> I want to disable chat with iptables so that nobody can
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>use chat with
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>>mIRC with   LAN. Because every students are chatting all
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>the time.
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>> I am using Red Hat 9 and Squid.
>> They use port 443 and 6667 to chat with mIRC
>> How can I write firewall rules.
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>iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp --dport 6660:6669 -j DROP would
>do, but, considering IRC servers also run on other ports,
>you should do:
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>iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -m multiport --destination-port
><insert random ports separated by comma here>
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>443 is used by https, so I don't think you should block it.
>An IRC daemon would not normally run on that port.
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Maybe best match will be achieved with l7-filter.sf.net