Re: Streaming (anything)

["Ashley M. Kirchner" <ashley pcraft com>]

"Michael R. Jinks" wrote:

> The way to block this stuff is to default-deny the ports which these
> applications use.  NAT (of which ipmasq is a special case) doesn't
> address the issue at all, you'll need to do this using IP filtering
> (ipchains, ipfw, ipf, iptables, whatever).  Find out what ports your
> "Bad Apps" use, and block them.

    Okay, then I suppose the next question would be: does anyone know what
ports things like Realplayer and Windows mediaplayer use when they're
streaming data?  I need to be able to block them both by using ipfwadm (an old
server) and using ipchains on a newer machine.

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