Hi Can I use Wire Shark to block certain web sites? I want to use it in an office environment and block certain sites that are not work related. Jani asked 10 Oct '11, 02:43  Jani Louw Fo... |
One Answer:
No, you can't. Think of Wireshark as a passive diagnostic tool, just like a doctor uses a stethoscope to listen to a patients body. It's doesn't affect it, it just listens. What you need is to force your surfers to use a filtering proxy, meaning that they can't surf directly anymore but need to ask a web proxy for whatever they want. On that proxy, you can then filter content. Take a look at Squid for example: www.squid-cache.org answered 10 Oct '11, 02:49  Jasper ♦♦ |
Hi Jasper
Thank you for your help!
BTW
You can use Wireshark to create ACL entries.
Go to:
- Tools
- Firewall ACL Rules
This allows you to create command-line ACL rules for many different firewall products, including Cisco IOS, Linux Netfilter (iptables), OpenBSD pf and Windows Firewall (via netsh). Rules for MAC addresses, IPv4 addresses, TCP and UDP ports, and IPv4+port combinations are supported.
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/ChUseToolsMenuSection.html