On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 12:33 AM, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/02/11 6:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: >> Correct. The easy solution is to ban bittorrent and other P2P services. > > > not as easy as it sounds. those services are remarkably agile at > dodging firewall rules > > Layer 7 net filtering may help [1] Also, IMO the HW spec, that the OP has posted, is an overkill. I am using ZeroShell [2] in production (ALIX hardware). It has almost all the features that the OP has listed in his wish list + L7 filter capabilities but I have not used it. Wi-Fi support - it uses MadWi-Fi. In most cases, a Captive Portal is enough deterrent for people to curb their "promiscuous" surfing habits :) [1] http://l7-filter.clearfoundation.com/ - not sure if it is incorporated into ClearOS. [2] http://www.zeroshell.net. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos