I am trying to setup v2.8 on a P3 box to control P2P traffic on my network. I have 2 NIC’s in the box each setup with their own IP addy. Whenever I enable the P2P deny all-P2P using winbox, I lose the remote connection to the box and have to reset it and start over. If I try to bridge the 2 NIC’s, same problem occurs, I lose the connection and have to reset. Am I doing something wrong here?? Will I have to run 3 NIC’s, one for admin with winbox that has an IP, and 2 NIC’s bridged that have no IP for the P2P management? I am lost…
maybe you have the rule setup incorrectly. you don’t need an additional NIC just for management. can you show me the mangle rule and the firewall rules ?
The only rule I am adding is to deny all P2P, thats it. If I bridge the two interfaces, I lose the connection too. Should I give it one ip address for one interface and then bridge them?
Ok, I think I have made progress. I have the two interfaces bridged, and I put a rule to drop P2P as list on the Microtik docs. Overnet is stopped cold, but so is the rest of the web, no yahoo, no hotmail, not even this site: I get connection refused messages. I setup a NAT to this thing if someone has a moment to show me where I am going wrong.
Nevermind gang, I kept at it and finally got it working right. P2P is now completely gone from my network, even better than what NBAR was able to kill in the router. Microtik may have somewhat of a learning curve compared to the other stuff I have tried, but for the low cost of a license compared to what a packeteer box costs, I am hooked. Sold!!!