Actually, any user can connect to a chat server and leave for the day. Can
you really block all chat servers? Since this generates traffic, the idle
timeout will never be reached.
Some things just can't be fixed.
Dwayne Kuykendall
Blue Ridge Internet & Consulting
support@brinet.com
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> From: Sam Ammons <Sammy@cheta.net>
> To: portmaster-users@livingston.com
> Subject: Re: filters
> Date: Tuesday, August 26, 1997 5:15 PM
>
> I believe the portmaster 2 will allow you to view the IP traffic on a
> specified port. I want to find out the IP address of a server push site
> and filter it so specific users cannot leave their computers on watching
> pointcast while they go home for the weekend.
>
> I want to monitor a specific port, like 14 on my portmaster and see
> where the data is coming from. It is probably done with the add filter
> command but the example in the book doesnt cover a specific port or the
> format for specifing a ip address/subnet mask for the destination to be
> monitored.
>
> Monitoring everything is not an option as it reboots the portmaster.
>
>
> (pointcast may be a bad example)
>
> After you turn it on, how do you turn it off?
>
> Sammy@cheta.net
> (Still looking for BOCA modems too)