Re: [fw-wiz] Port numbers for Peer to Peer file sharing apps.

From: Eric Vyncke (evyncke@cisco.com)
Date: 11/22/02 

To: Mikael Olsson <mikael.olsson@clavister.com>
From: Eric Vyncke <evyncke@cisco.com>
Date: Fri Nov 22 08:34:01 2002

If you are concerned only by the waste of bandwidth, you may want to:
- block all incoming TCP connections but the really needed ones
- instead of blocking port 1214, ... you may want to use QoS feature on router or ... to limit the bandwidth to a few kbps

The reason behind the second point is to fool the cluefull students: some traffic is going anyway, so, they will not try other ports but the default.

NB: I admit that this is not an absolute design ;-)

-eric

At 10:58 21/11/2002 +0100, Mikael Olsson wrote:

>Mark Whobrey wrote:
>>
>> I am trying to find a list of ports used by the most common p2p file
>> sharing applications.
>
>There's a fairly comprehensive list at:
>http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/app_port_list.htm
>
>But, as someone else said, there's also several that will use
>ports like 80, 21, 25, and some systems that allow changing the
>port numbers manually, which I have seen heaps of clued users
>doing (and, of course, the not-so-clued users doing a couple of
>days/weeks later).
>
>This all makes me want to start my "don't do app-specific shaping
>on public networks" rant again, but I won't. I'll just point you
>at my previous rant:
>
>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=firewall-wizards&m=103652075227472&w=2
>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=firewall-wizards&m=103659628332470&w=2
>
>
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