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Block Bit Torrent In Mikrotik

Posted by Admin Sunday, July 17, 2011 0 comments
The bane of most ISPs is Peer to Peer traffic(p2p). If you run hotels or apartments, especially apartments full of students, p2p will be your main source of issues. In some cases, extreme measure must be taken. So how does one go about taking back their network? The first thing to do is to find the offending traffic.
Mikrotik has some built in matching functionality for p2p traffic. You can use this in mangle rules or firewall rules. In mangle, you can mark the packets and then lower their precedence, or stick them in a smaller queue. In the firewall, you can block them all together.
Notice the many matches