Re: How to restrict torrent download ?

[Andrew Beverley <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 20:01 +0000, J Webster wrote:
> > Personally I use the rather brutal technique of looking for several
> > connections to high port numbers from a single client. I dare say there
> > are false positives, but it works for me.
> >
> > The details for that are here:
> >
> > http://andybev.com/index.php/Fair_traffic_shaping_an_ADSL_line_for_a_local_network_using_Linux

[Top-posting fixed]

> Will this work on CentOS 5?
>

No, according to this post:

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-June/059656.html

> How important are the kernal and iptables versions to implement it?
> 

You'll need connlimit and ipset. Connlimit became part of the stable
kernel in 2.6.23 (thanks Jan). I can't remember whether ipset has made
it into the stable kernel yet, but it certainly won't be in the kernel
of CentOS 5 (unless it's available as a separate package).

Andy


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