Network Monitoring Help?

[sinco]

I am living in a house with 9 other college students. I wanted to disable the ability to upload/share MP3 files from P2P applications. Although I don?t use P2P applications myself, most of the roommates do. I talked to each roommate about not sharing files, but I am worried that over time they will install a new P2P program that they won?t be able/forget to disable that sharing. I don?t want the RIAA knocking at my door for the actions of one of the roomies. I am using cable internet in through a Netgear WGR614 router/AP, in which each user connects through 802.11g. What options are available for me to run some networking monitors tools or blockers to stop this activity? What else would you recommend doing to help protect the reliability of the network? Thanks for your help!

 

[sinco]

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[Jon855]

Good luck on that one. It'll be a touch task to tackle. U need to find the typical ports that the p2p uses to communicate and disable it. But You'll have a bigger problem, because many p2p software will let you change the port value. So the best way is to have them abstain from using your network. Just tell em to STUFF IT UP... theirs.

 

[RedCOMET]

you could use a *nix box as the gateway/router/firewall. With that you can do some traffic shaping so that Http request have a higher priority than say P2P apps. Some nix distros will also help with some content filtering too.

Some distro to check out are mOnOwall and smoothwall

 

[n0cmonkey]

Use Inline Snort on a Linux box. Tailor the ruleset to capture just p2p, and deny it. You could even do some traffic shaping from there if you want, but it wouldn't be necessary. 😉