rt-n66u how do i find out if torrenting is occuring

[major league]

hello
I am allowing a family member to use my network. The one condition i gave is no bit torrent traffic allowed, or else he would have to get a new account for himself at our local service provider.

I would first like to say, that as far as network knowledge and settings, i am not in the major or minor league. Beer league at best.

I would like to know if it is possible to find out if bit torrent traffic is occurring on my network. I will upgrade my asus stock firmware to something else if it will provide that information.

If it is not too difficult and there was a setting in one of the firmwares that would quash this, I would do it in a second.

thanks
-ml

 

[n2ubp]

With a little patience you should be able to set up Traffic Manager QOS using "User Defined QOS mode" to prevent torrent traffic from passing thru your router to a specific MAC address or to any device attached to your router... at least that is what it looks like with the Merlin firmware load. Good luck!

 

[major league]

Which firmware are you suggesting would work?. I have used the stock firmware from Asus to pick a port range and a device. However, I don't know if it is effective or not.

 

[huotg01]

I won't answer directly your question (because I don't know how-to), but here is some partial answers that could help you to do what you want. Please report back.

• http://wiki.wireshark.org/BitTorrent
• http://www.howtogeek.com/107945/how-to-identify-network-abuse-with-wireshark/
• http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/17228/how-to-identify-p2p-on-network
• http://superuser.com/questions/4995...t-traffic-ideally-with-automatic-notification

 

[n2ubp]

Which firmware are you suggesting would work?. I have used the stock firmware from Asus to pick a port range and a device. However, I don't know if it is effective or not.

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/bkfq2a6aebq68//Asuswrt-Merlin#2324w3jh7e4q4

 

[major league]

I won't answer directly your question (because I don't know how-to), but here is some partial answers that could help you to do what you want. Please report back.

• http://wiki.wireshark.org/BitTorrent
• http://www.howtogeek.com/107945/how-to-identify-network-abuse-with-wireshark/
• http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/17228/how-to-identify-p2p-on-network
• http://superuser.com/questions/4995...t-traffic-ideally-with-automatic-notification

I have read these articles, and have to say i am not sure if it is possible or not. Alot of this was over my head.

Which firmware are you suggesting would work?. I have used the stock firmware from Asus to pick a port range and a device. However, I don't know if it is effective or not.
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/bkf...#2324w3jh7e4q4

Is merlin the best choice for this particular issue (over tomato or ddwrt)?

 

[RMerlin]

Detecting torrent traffic is very difficult, because it can also be encrypted.

 

[major league]

Detecting torrent traffic is very difficult, because it can also be encrypted.

shazbut
I don't think i am going to pursue this further then. Thanks anyway

 

[slyphnier]

if the user have average pc knowledge then it will be easier to know or filter, as we can watch/block the default/most used torrent port

i personally not only running torrent in forced encrypted, i also use random port each run

maybe you can watch/log connection list + port forward list (because torrent use NAT)
from there its kinda easy to detect torrent
as torrent swarm it with lots ip and forwarded to one single local client ip

 

[major league]

if the user have average pc knowledge then it will be easier to know or filter, as we can watch/block the default/most used torrent port

i personally not only running torrent in forced encrypted, i also use random port each run

maybe you can watch/log connection list + port forward list (because torrent use NAT)
from there its kinda easy to detect torrent
as torrent swarm it with lots ip and forwarded to one single local client ip

aren't there other services that use peer to peer in this way? other types of traffic.

It is so wierd. The moment he moved in we started getting poor response time, i had to turn on Qos after 3 or so days. For some reason, from time to time my wife and I would get 3k ms pings to google. This went away the moment Qos was on. We both asked each other "what is he doing to choke our line"?. We have a fast service for download, but only 0.5 mbps up.