How can I block multiple connection to the same file?

[Wicked2000]

Hi.

I want to know how can I stop softwares that open multiple connection to the same file.

I have here a picture to show you.


As you can see there are multiple connection to Fifa 07 Demo. I need that Wingate to only accept one and the other reject.
How can I do that?

[adrien]

Hi

WinGate doesn't allow that.

Is this being downloaded by a download accelerator client? Usually you'll find in these cases that each connection is downloading just a small chunk of that file, and it will piece them all together.

However, if you have Kaspersky antivirus running on the WWW proxy, it will revert such requests to request the full file (so that it can be scanned).

What client software is the client machine running to do this?

Adrien

[Wicked2000]

I don't know what software the client is using.
The problem is that I can control what softwares they will use. This is a wireless network that I can't control its clients.

I will try Kaspersky and see if it does the job,
Thanks for the info.

Will update.

[Wicked2000]

No. It didn't do the job. Kaspersky is working and still I can those multiple connection. There must be a way to block these softwares.

Any other ideas that I can try?

[adrien]

Hi

My main question is why do you want to stop it?

If as I suspect each connection is only retrieving part of the file, then if you block multiple connections like that, you will break the downloads, as the client won't be able to piece the file back together from the parts.

Are you sure all these connections from the client are actually causing you problems? It may appear a lot worse looking at the activity screen than it really is.

A more effective measure if you're worried about say bandwidth usage by all the requests is to configure bandwidth control to restrict port 80 (web traffic), and you can slow the connections down without actually blocking them.

Adrien