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Block P2P
Traffic with
pfSense by Sandeep Athiyarath • September 30, 2017 • 0
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AWS, LINUX,
Suricata PFSENSE,
IPS Our customers demand for p2p blocking for their
SYSADMIN,
Block P2P network infrastructure. Typical TECHNICAL
Traffics
question is that whether pfSense can block P2P
with traffic?. Whether it can do L7 filtering.?
pfSense
Advantage with pfSense is that it can achieve this
using Snort
p2p filtering in three ways.
IPS
Loadbalanc 1. Block all other ports other than required
er with SSL browsing ports like DNS, HTTP and
Client HTTPS using firewall rules
Authenticat 2. Limit p2p traffic to lowest speed with traffic
ion using shaping bandwidth limiter option.
pfSense 3. Use an IDS/IPS like snort or surikata to
and detect and block p2p traffic.
HAProxy
The third option is more fool proof and this article
Hortonwork
is about the that option. Blocking network p2p
s Ambari
traffic with snort IPS.
Installation
on Ubuntu Assuming that you already have a working pf
14.04 Sense installation. Below are the steps
Content
to be followed.Install snort package from the
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