Quick question about PF and ALTQ

[LoN]Kamikaze LoN_Kamikaze at gmx.de
Mon Nov 12 01:58:14 PST 2007


Peter Boosten wrote:
> On Mon, November 12, 2007 08:04, Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
> 
>> Hope the above explanation suffices.
> 
> Yu, it does. Very nice explanation, thanx.
> 
>>
>> Can you clarify your needs a bit more?
> 
> Well, it's actually quite simple: our internet access line, which is used
> by several people (directly, without a proxy server, but with a FreeBSD
> firewall). Our management wants to block unwanted traffic (so not: wants
> to block unwanted sited - which would be very easy), like p2p and online
> radio, since this traffic is:
> - non business related
> - bandwidth consuming
> 
> Peter

You just drop all traffic except for that over wanted ports, such as for http,
https, ftp, smtp, pop3, maybe some instant messengers...

That won't help against tunneling, though.





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