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I used to use a wonderful little tool called trafshow for identifying chatty streams/conversations. I haven't had to use it in a while, but it may still be worth looking at. Had a very nice interface, and accepted tcpdump-ish grammar for filtering iirc. -j On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 08:27:14PM -0500, James wrote: > From: "James" <[email protected]> > To: "'Todd Suiter'" <[email protected]> > Cc: "'Walter Gray'" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: Blocking Internet Gaming > Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 20:27:14 -0500 > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 > > > They are specifiable on the server side. And most server operators run > on default ports as it is easier to connect. But you are right. An > organization policy of no games is better. > > You could maybe also see if a tool like esniff (not free) or tcpdump > (free) would work to track people down. > > - James > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Todd Suiter > Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 8:21 PM > To: James > Cc: 'Walter Gray'; [email protected] > Subject: RE: Blocking Internet Gaming > > > Problem with that is you can spec those ports pretty much at will. This > came up > on the [email protected] list last week. Policy is a good place to > start. Make it obvious that your org does not approve of this type of > thing. > Then start looking at tcpdump output to find the ports/people, and go > from > there. > > > toddler > > On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, James wrote: > > > > > What kind of games specifically? > > > > Like online Java games (Bejeweled)? Or games like Quake, Unreal, > Tribes > > etc? > > > > The latter is much easier, just block all traffic to/from the default > > ports which use them. A quick google would yield what they use. I'll > > give you a quick hint and say Quake3 is 29760-5 or so and Tribes1/2 is > > 28000-28005 or so. > > > > - James > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of > > Walter Gray > > Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 8:03 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Blocking Internet Gaming > > > > > > > > Does anybody know of any good software or way to restrict Internet > > gaming on > > a corporate Network? > > > > ---end quoted text--- -- Jason Legate Sr. Net/Sys Admin, eVine, Inc. work- [email protected] | home- [email protected] Key Fingerprint: 4FB4 2228 DE63 3BBA 7B72 40DD 13D5 2547 821D 2909 Attachment:
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