About iptables and layer7 in Fedora 16

[Cristian Sava]

The problem is this: "Fedora does not support DIP for now"

Any usefull solution (ignoring legality
http://netequalizernews.com/2011/02/08/what-is-deep-packet-inspection-and-why-the-controversy/)
to block bittorrent?
And please lets stay at fedora solution level.

C. Sava

On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 18:25 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 03/21/2012 06:15 PM, Jatin K wrote:
> > On Wednesday 21 March 2012 03:03 PM, Cristian Sava wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I need to use something like
> >>
> >> ...>iptables -A FORWARD -m layer7 --l7proto bittorrent -j DROP
> >>
> >> and I get this message:
> >>
> >> "iptables v1.4.12: Couldn't load match `layer7':No such file or
> >> directory"
> >>
> >> Do I need to recompile the kernel, the layer7 module and so on?
> >> If so, any kernel update will destroy this.
> >> Any easy solution?
> >>
> >> C. Sava
> >>
> >>
> > module is loaded ????   check it with " modprobe  -l | grep ipt_layer7    ( not
> > sure its ipt_layer7 or what ... )
> >
> > if not load it with modeprobe ipt_layer7 , then try to add the rule
> >
> >
> 
> If that module existed, wouldn't you expect it to be under
> 
> /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/    ?
> 
> If so, looking there shows there is no such module on F16.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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