The problem is that , i have a proxy/firewall box that provides internet to my internal users, now i have only permitted the common ports like ftp,http,smtp,pop3 etc etc & blocked all other , now there are couple of p2p applications out there that tunnel through my port 80 as its open, this is taking up my internet bandwith, i want to stop that ... regards --- Rob Sterenborg <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, March 1, 2006 16:40, S t i n g r a y wrote: > > will it filter out HTTP tunneling also ? > > Do you mean you have a VPN tunnel which transfers > http, or what ? If that is > the case, I don't think so ; Squid can only inspect > traffic that it can see of > course. However, if the Squid-box is at the end of > the tunnel you may be able > to do it. > But maybe I don't understand correctly what problem > you are trying to solve. > > > Gr, > Rob > > > --- Rob Sterenborg <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Wed, March 1, 2006 12:45, S t i n g r a y > wrote: > >> > Is it possible to filter HTTP > signatures/headers > >> > with Iptables ? or is there addon for it ? > >> > >> You may be able to use the String match but you > can > >> only filter the payload of 1 packet at a time : > if a > >> signature/header spans multiple packets then it > >> won't work. > >> > >> Netfilter is not meant to do content filtering. > >> Perhaps you can use Squid. > >> > >> > >> Gr, > >> Rob > > > > *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Stingray *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com