[afnog] Skype Port

[Seun Ojedeji]

Well maybe for someone promoting other voip platforms

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo <
carlosm3011 at gmail.com> wrote:

> What I find strange is why people would want to block Skype.
>
> I use it all the time for work-related purposes, it provides an
> extremely cheap way to make international phone calls which, at least
> for me (I live in Uruguay) would be extremely expensive, and provides
> a chat system that beats MSN hands down.
>
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Graham Beneke <graham at neology.co.za>
> wrote:
> > On 24/01/2011 15:09, Bope Christian wrote:
> >>
> >> someone know the Skype Port , i need to block this port in my firewall.
> >
> > Skype unfortunately does not use a single port. It uses almost any port
> that
> > it can to get past NAT and firewall configurations. In a similar way to
> > other peer-to-peer applications like bittorrent.
> >
> > You would need to do layer 7 filtering with a suitably capable firewall.
> You
> > also need to do layer 7 inspection on port 80 & 443 traffic as Skype is
> even
> > capable of proxying via HTTP.
> >
> > --
> > Graham Beneke
> > Systems Engineer      | Neology (PTY) Ltd.
> > graham at neology.co.za  | http://www.neology.co.za/
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> >
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