HOW TO DISABLE STREAMING INTERNET RADIO?

[jacksnyderc]

Wingate 5.2.3, NAT, WWW redirected through ENS

Some users are streaming radio, slowing down the internet experience for
other users.

In the activity monitor, the above connections are seen as http://<url>
connections.

Is it possible to disable some port to prevent this? .. or is Wingate
not able to do something this *advanced*?

Thanks in advance,
Jack

[MattP]

Hi Jack,

This can be quite a hard thing to block because the different media players can connect in various ways. You can try TRing the RTSP port, 554 and then denying access to it. This will block any streaming requests on this port, however most applications can then use port 80. We tried it here with Real Player and at some stage all connections connected to a RAS web page, so you could add a policy in the WWW proxy to deny access to a url containing ras.

When version 6 is released you will be able to use the WGIC to control application access, so you could specify from the server that Real Player cannot be used. Also in version 6 you will be able to throttle bandwidth so you could reduce the available bandwidth to port 554 which wouldn't stop the connection but would make it so slow as to be useless.

Regards,

Matt