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The internet provider on my dorm explicitly allows legal torrents (lemmy.nz)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by user224@lemmy.sdf.org to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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[–] fxdave@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Sorry I still don't understand. Did you just block typical ports?

[–] comador@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

No, there's no direct port blocking involved because P2P can work on all ports.

As such, the F5 BigIP identifies the packets themselves with the p2p protocol in them and blocks the packets themselves that are identified as P2P.

This way, the only torrent traffic that may get through is the kind running inside a VPN. Even then though, we can identify encrypted torrents by other means (Deep Flow Inspection, trace the VPN traffic or directly monitor the student machines that are owned by the university).