Dear All, I am having a network 8 computer sharing internet only. I have one router one 8port switch and 8 computers only. There is no server on the network. I am having Cisco Pix 501 firewall on the network. Through this I want to block the yahoo and msn messanger through this firewall.. Is ther any one who can help in this issue???...
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The ports for Yahoo and MSN messengers are: Yahoo Messenger = 5000 to 5010 and 5050 MSN Messenger = 1863
The other option with msn messanger is Blocking all Outgoing TCP connections to the host 207.46.110.* 207.46.104.* Yahoo messenger is 216.136.223.* 216.136.224.*
The other option is to put the following lines in the host file. 127.0.0.1 https://login.passport.com 127.0.0.1 login.passport.com 127.0.0.1 messenger.msn.com 127.0.0.1 messenger.msn.ca 127.0.0.1 www.msn.com 127.0.0.1 msn.messenger.net 127.0.0.1 hotmail.msn.com 127.0.0.1 loginnet.passport.com This will allow you to control per PC who has access and you can add as many sites as you want. If the users are novice this will work or you can lock out the host file. You will have to similar thing for yahoo sites.
Of course you can purchase appliances like the ones from St Bernard and get total control over which websites as well as what times and by whom. This may be more than what you want to pay. The Enterprise edition of Symantec for a software solution.
cisco 501 doesn't do "fine( site by site )" web filtering . besides expanding list and clients will be a hustle to follow. I would go for the symantec or another filtering software.
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