Re: [squid-users] p2p and squid

From: Mar Matthias Darin <BDarin@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:13:56 -0600

Hello,

Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães writes:

> Yeah .... i have to agree with Marcus and disagree completly with Mar
> Matthias. But ... there are cases and cases. At least for me, letting
> squid deal with CONNECTs showed completly efficient and pretty enough for
> my needs. My needs are usually corporate needs, in which P2P is never
> wanted. I can easily block P2P with high efficient in squid with some
> simple ACLs. I have also tried some other p2p-blocking things, like layer7
> iptables modules and ipp2p but i couldnt get 100% blocking with them.

I prefer the approach IRCache uses - allowing GET only, everything else
direct. Traffic shapers, congestion control, and my firewall handle the
rest with full logging and control.

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