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How to stop Limewire traffic!
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Well, after all these really helpful posts, I thought I would chime in with something completely unhelpful.
According to Port Forward, Limewire uses 6346 TCP/UDP.
Sorry, I know this was completely useless to you.
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@ everyone else who answered this thread
Don't you READ or understand what he was asking?
Damn, it doesn't take much intelligence.
He wants to STOP limewire from working completely. Did he say "I want to stop limewire from uploading while I download and completely leech off the service" ?
@James - it seems the 3rd quote in your sig is quite appropriate. Obviously it's not your brain that has the blood at the moment.
According to Port Forward, Limewire uses 6346 TCP/UDP.
Sorry, I know this was completely useless to you.
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@ everyone else who answered this thread
Don't you READ or understand what he was asking?
Damn, it doesn't take much intelligence.
He wants to STOP limewire from working completely. Did he say "I want to stop limewire from uploading while I download and completely leech off the service" ?
@James - it seems the 3rd quote in your sig is quite appropriate. Obviously it's not your brain that has the blood at the moment.
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zeb said:
No, it's pretty damn obvious that he admins a network for several users, and needs to block some of them from using apps on the net that suck bandwidth.
Andy why shouldn't I get snooty? Your response (and others) was just plain stupid. If you've got nothing helpful to say, then don't respond at all.
thisgeek said:
This is unfortunatly the case more often than not
But why use, as I said, Peer to Peer when you want to cut off the last part. It kinda makes it redundant. The suggestion for bit torrant at least solves that and you won't spend a day downloading something to find that it is just a re-named file or a virus infected app.
i dont WANT PEER TO PEER on my network!!!
i want to stop ALL the different pc's and laptops to not be able to use LIMEWIRE!
I cannot go around to all of them and uninstall it!
I can nip the entire problem in the bud... by not letting it work!
i want to stop ALL the different pc's and laptops to not be able to use LIMEWIRE!
I cannot go around to all of them and uninstall it!
I can nip the entire problem in the bud... by not letting it work!
The port is indeed 6346 but can be changed in the proggy so you are going to have to be inventive...
http://www.zdnetasia.com/smb/expert/0,39043756,39251685,00.htm is a good article on this. Ports are not the solution if you have tech savvy people working on your network.
http://www.zdnetasia.com/smb/expert/0,39043756,39251685,00.htm is a good article on this. Ports are not the solution if you have tech savvy people working on your network.
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Interesting comment made at MuniWireless...
James Enck writes about some amazing applications, one of which is from a company called Verso. They are selling “carrier grade Skype filtering technology”. According to the press release, the product is “for cable operators and internet protocol service providers seeking to selectively disable undesirable network traffic and improve service levels on their networks. Applications such as Skype, Peer-2-Peer (P2P) messaging, streaming media and instant messaging increasingly cause congestion on service provider networks and interrupt or degrade service for other critical applications. ” Verso is very honest about what they want to offer the telcos. They say that “this traffic (meaning Skype calls) runs outside the traditional carrier revenue generation models and is therefore highly undesirable for them.” No kidding.
I know that many incumbent operators are looking for ways to deny their customers access to applications like Skype that allow those same customers to make free phone calls. In some countries, Skype is illegal — usually it’s in developing countries where people could use free (or cheap) calling services but instead, their government, also usually a dictatorship, forces them to pay the monopoly prices charged by the local telco (coincidentally owned by the dictator’s brother).
What are the other nifty uses for this odious piece of technology from Verso? How about blocking video streaming from another site, perhaps the BBC or from a cable/telco competitor? How about blocking P2P traffic so that people cannot share files legally, for example, Buddhist sanghas across the world who download and share videos of their masters giving teachings and blessings?
Monty Bannerman, president and chief operating officer of Verso boasts: “This is a first of kind technology we are introducing in the carrier marketplace.”
Congratulations, Monty! And while you are at it, why not sell your technology to countries with despotic governments and monopoly telcos that rip off their own citizens? Why not help the cable/telco duopoly in the US continue charging high prices for broadband access and assist them even more by allowing them to lock down their networks?
Once more thing. I hope Verso publishes its list of customer wins so we know which service providers to avoid. We will finally know who is dedicated to network neutrality and who isn’t. And I am willing to bet that customers prefer to sign up with the former.
James Enck writes about some amazing applications, one of which is from a company called Verso. They are selling “carrier grade Skype filtering technology”. According to the press release, the product is “for cable operators and internet protocol service providers seeking to selectively disable undesirable network traffic and improve service levels on their networks. Applications such as Skype, Peer-2-Peer (P2P) messaging, streaming media and instant messaging increasingly cause congestion on service provider networks and interrupt or degrade service for other critical applications. ” Verso is very honest about what they want to offer the telcos. They say that “this traffic (meaning Skype calls) runs outside the traditional carrier revenue generation models and is therefore highly undesirable for them.” No kidding.
I know that many incumbent operators are looking for ways to deny their customers access to applications like Skype that allow those same customers to make free phone calls. In some countries, Skype is illegal — usually it’s in developing countries where people could use free (or cheap) calling services but instead, their government, also usually a dictatorship, forces them to pay the monopoly prices charged by the local telco (coincidentally owned by the dictator’s brother).
What are the other nifty uses for this odious piece of technology from Verso? How about blocking video streaming from another site, perhaps the BBC or from a cable/telco competitor? How about blocking P2P traffic so that people cannot share files legally, for example, Buddhist sanghas across the world who download and share videos of their masters giving teachings and blessings?
Monty Bannerman, president and chief operating officer of Verso boasts: “This is a first of kind technology we are introducing in the carrier marketplace.”
Congratulations, Monty! And while you are at it, why not sell your technology to countries with despotic governments and monopoly telcos that rip off their own citizens? Why not help the cable/telco duopoly in the US continue charging high prices for broadband access and assist them even more by allowing them to lock down their networks?
Once more thing. I hope Verso publishes its list of customer wins so we know which service providers to avoid. We will finally know who is dedicated to network neutrality and who isn’t. And I am willing to bet that customers prefer to sign up with the former.
Very nice post Antowan.
Port blocking is the only real tool that most of us have access to. Fortunately here at work, we have a packeteer which can identify application level traffic on the link. That way we can shape - or even deny - application based protocols without worrying what port it is running on.
Similar things can be done with IPCop (or with anything that can run snort) - with a bit of fiddling, by sending TCP RSTs to source or dest when detecting that kind of traffic.
Port blocking is the only real tool that most of us have access to. Fortunately here at work, we have a packeteer which can identify application level traffic on the link. That way we can shape - or even deny - application based protocols without worrying what port it is running on.
Similar things can be done with IPCop (or with anything that can run snort) - with a bit of fiddling, by sending TCP RSTs to source or dest when detecting that kind of traffic.