Blocking P2P access

Hi all

Is it possible to block access to P2P networks

I want to restrict access on the kids machines, They connect to the internet
through a wireless connection to my Belkin ADSL Router and we are all
running WinXP SP2.

Can I block their access.

Thanks

"Darrel Griffin" <darrel-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi all
>
> Is it possible to block access to P2P networks
>
> I want to restrict access on the kids machines, They connect to the
> internet through a wireless connection to my Belkin ADSL Router and we are
> all running WinXP SP2.
>
> Can I block their access.
>
> Thanks
>
Probably better to ask them! Children are taught quite a bit about
computers now. The easiest way is to remove/uninstall the peer to peer
program or install the free version of Zone Alarm. Zone alarm can be set to
stop programs being allowed to connect to the internet and to also stop
acting as a server. If they do run the popular programs they will not get
any connection.
That is the easiest way. Someone else was asking about this in another
group.

Darrel Griffin wrote

> Hi all
>
> Is it possible to block access to P2P networks
>
> I want to restrict access on the kids machines, They connect to the internet
> through a wireless connection to my Belkin ADSL Router and we are all
> running WinXP SP2.
>
> Can I block their access.
>
> Thanks
>


Get their school to sort them out. That's what most useless parents do.

On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 21:09:08 UTC, "Darrel Griffin"
<darrel-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Is it possible to block access to P2P networks
>
> I want to restrict access on the kids machines, They connect to the internet
> through a wireless connection to my Belkin ADSL Router and we are all
> running WinXP SP2.
>
> Can I block their access.

I've done it by setting up a proper firewall machine and only allowing a
very few open ports...
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> I want to restrict access on the kids machines

You might be able to restrict their access to install apps, and get
around it that way.

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On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 22:12:13 -0000, in uk.telecom.broadband , MinusNet
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>Get their school to sort them out. That's what most useless parents do.
<sarcasm>

Thank you for your usual high level of contributory usefulness.

Perhaps you should get a job in CS, you'd be a natural.

</sarcasm>
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On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 21:09:08 -0000, in uk.telecom.broadband , "Darrel
Griffin" <darrel-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Hi all
>
>Is it possible to block access to P2P networks
>
>I want to restrict access on the kids machines, They connect to the internet
>through a wireless connection to my Belkin ADSL Router and we are all
>running WinXP SP2.

Check the ports the P2P runs on, and disable traffic on those ports at
your router. Also ensure your router does NOT have PNP enabled.
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"MinusNet" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Darrel Griffin wrote
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> Is it possible to block access to P2P networks
>>
>> I want to restrict access on the kids machines, They connect to the
>> internet
>> through a wireless connection to my Belkin ADSL Router and we are all
>> running WinXP SP2.
>>
>> Can I block their access.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>
>
> Get their school to sort them out. That's what most useless parents do.
>
Some of this posters useful replies to other genuine requests for help

Unlike you, I don't recycle other peoples work.

You couldn't make up some of the bollocks that gets posted here.

Are you expecting pussnet to give you a bonus for that garbage?

Yawn

WTF do you think I got my info? For an arselicking pussnet employee
you're pretty dense when it comes to knowing the facts.

Tell her to move off the streets

Do fuck off. £24m turnover - my local Tesco does that.

What's it like to have a brain fart?

Plonk!

I do like the sound a knobhead with a small cock complex makes as he fall's
into the kill file

In message <(E-Mail Removed)>, Mark McIntyre
<(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 21:09:08 -0000, in uk.telecom.broadband , "Darrel
>Griffin" <darrel-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>Check the ports the P2P runs on, and disable traffic on those ports at
>your router. Also ensure your router does NOT have PNP enabled.
Some of the P2P software is a bit smarter than that, ISTR that Kazaa was
fairly agile about what ports it used and it was more than happy to use
some very common port numbers (80 springs to mind) so it was a little
difficult to block easily, You might want to check a few P2P apps to see
if this is still the case.
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Clint Sharp

On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 19:43:00 +0000, in uk.telecom.broadband , Clint
Sharp <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>In message <(E-Mail Removed)>, Mark McIntyre
><(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>>On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 21:09:08 -0000, in uk.telecom.broadband , "Darrel
>>Griffin" <darrel-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>Check the ports the P2P runs on, and disable traffic on those ports at
>>your router. Also ensure your router does NOT have PNP enabled.
>
>Some of the P2P software is a bit smarter than that, ISTR that Kazaa was
>fairly agile about what ports it used and it was more than happy to use
>some very common port numbers (80 springs to mind)

I believe that for it to do this automagically, it needs uPNP enabled
on the router.

However... If the kids are smart enough to reconfigure the s/w to use
different ports, then the only sensible recourse is give them user
accounts with no install rights and regularly scan the machine for
"naughty" apps.

I seem to recall having several times recently also pointed out s/w
like netnanny.


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