Re: Counter Strike blocker?

From: Johan Christensson (johan.christensson_at_telia.com)
Date: 10/07/04 

Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 23:19:28 +0200

Can't, don't know how to.... I don't know actully. Any way. They have a
firewall that blocks this kind of traffic, but this is only helpfull when it
comes to games over the internet, not localy played games.

/JCh

"CJ Taylor" <[cege] at [tavayn] dit commmmm> wrote in message
news:Oa3Kj$KrEHA.4004@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> The IT department can't do anything???
>
> Have they ever heard of a firewall?
>
> "Johan Christensson" <johan.christensson@telia.com> wrote in message
> news:ulv5M4KrEHA.3464@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> Hi.
>>
>> I got contacted by an old teacher today that works at a public shool here
> in
>> Sweden. They have a ever groving problem with the students playing
>> Counter
>> Strike on the schools computers. Not only dose this pose a problem with
>> bandwidth usage, but the fact that the Half-Life installations often are
> not
>> licensed, and this puts the school in a tight position. Apperently the
>> schools IT department say that thay can't do anything to stop it from
> there
>> point of view.
>>
>> He asked me if I chould come up with a solution. So here is my idea:
>>
>> I'm not that familiar with Couter Strike, but I belive that it's a client
>> server setup. Would it be possible to some how make a application that
>> listens after CS Servers and block/jam there traffic? I want to disturb
> the
>> CS traffic but not everything else?
>>
>> I'm quite an experiensed programer, but in this case I have no clue where
> to
>> start. All help is apprciated.
>>
>> /Johan Ch
>>
>>
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