Setup guide

Packages required: system

License required: level1 (Limited to 1 firewall rule), level3

ip firewall, /ip firewall mangle, /queue

Hardware usage: Increases with rule count

Related Documents

• Firewall Filters

• Bandwidth Control

• Packet Marking (Mangle)

Description

RouterOS is able to recognize connections of the most popular P2P protocols:

• Fasttrack (Kazaa, KazaaLite, Diet Kazaa, Grokster, iMesh, giFT, Poisoned, mlMac)

• Gnutella (Shareaza, XoLoX, , Gnucleus, BearShare, LimeWire (java), Morpheus, Phex,

Swapper, Gtk-Gnutella (linux), Mutella (linux), Qtella (linux), MLDonkey, Acquisition (Mac

OS), Poisoned, Swapper, Shareaza, XoloX, mlMac)

• Gnutella2 (Shareaza, MLDonkey, Gnucleus, Morpheus, Adagio, mlMac)

• DirectConnect (DirectConnect (AKA DC++), MLDonkey, NeoModus Direct Connect,

BCDC++, CZDC++ )

• eDonkey (eDonkey2000, eMule, xMule (linux), Shareaza, MLDonkey, mlMac)

• Soulseek (Soulseek, MLDonkey)

• BitTorrent (BitTorrent, BitTorrent++, Shareaza, MLDonkey, ABC, Azureus, BitAnarch,

SimpleBT, BitTorrent.Net, mlMac)

• Blubster (Blubster, Piolet)

• WPNP (WinMX)

Notes

The Connection Tracking facility (/ip firewall connection tracking) must be enabled if you want

to use NAT.

Please also note, that it is impossible to recognize peer-to-peer traffic from the first packet. Only

already establilished connections can be matched.

The filter will work only if it sees the traffic coming from both directions.

Traffic Marking

ip firewall mangle

Description

Peer-to-peer traffic marking provided by Mangle facility labels the traffic for future processing

aginst the firewall filters or queues.

Property Description

default: any) - match Peer-to-Peer (P2P) connections: