:) Let me rephrase the question..I would like to block torrents or Limit their bandwidth usage within my network. Please share some working procedures. thanksYou ask effective, with this assumption, the reply is NO
You can't, because torrents can use ports 80 and 443 and then it looks like regular website traffic.:) Let me rephrase the question..I would like to block torrents or Limit their bandwidth usage within my network. Please share some working procedures. thanks
..thanks Cablenut9.You can't, because torrents can use ports 80 and 443 and then it looks like regular website traffic.:) Let me rephrase the question..I would like to block torrents or Limit their bandwidth usage within my network. Please share some working procedures. thanks
If you need to find something old, weird, or otherwise hard to get the regular way (like the Olympics) then torrenting is a suitable option.What is worth torrenting these days anyway??
/ip firewall layer7-protocol
add comment="Block Bit Torrent" name=layer7-bittorrent-exp regexp="^(\\x13bitt\
orrent protocol|azver\\x01\$|get /scrape\\\?info_hash=get /announce\\\?inf\
o_hash=|get /client/bitcomet/|GET /data\\\?fid=)|d1:ad2:id20:|\\x08'7P\\)[\
RP]"
/ip firewall mangle
add action=mark-packet chain=prerouting layer7-protocol=layer7-bittorrent-exp \
new-packet-mark=Torrentci passthrough=yes
/queue simple
add max-limit=512k/1M name=TORRENT packet-marks=Torrentci target=""