With the aim of managing bitorrenting on my network (i.e. preventing torrents) I opted to install a proxy server on a Ubuntu gateway server to control access to torrent sites for the clients on the network. This was a basic set up with a minimal Squid proxy server config in order to get up and running quickly, and to ultimately start preventing torrent usage. Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator. Read on...
