Setting up a firewall

[homeostasis81]

Ive been attempting to set up a firewall that accomplishes a few things

1) Users will not be restricted in their web surfing
2) Traffic generated by file sharing services would not be allowed in or out, such as those powered by gnutella
3) Traffic for internal services such as smtp, pop3, www would be allowed

Im somewhat new to firewalls and would like some advice. Im using a netopia router with a built in firewall, and have been using their basic firewall, but I would like to restrict gnutella and not have it effect any websurfing.

I appreciate any suggestions

[j-man]

You should be able to close the port that gnutella uses for both inbound and outgoing traffic. I think its port 6346.

[homeostasis81]

Is this the standard for all gnutella services??? Or do some use a different port???

Thanks

[j-man]

Hi,

It appears that port 6346 is the standard. I checked on the <a href="http://www.gnutellanews.com/" target="_blank">gnutellanews page</a> and that port is the one listed. The gnutella page <a href="http://welcome.to/gnutella" target="_blank">here</a> lists other servers all specifying the same port as well.

HTH

[homeostasis81]

Thanks for all your help.