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How do I block streaming video on MikroTik router?
You can do it via webproxy. Set a transparent proxy for your network, and then block video streams. On the first step you are enabling the webproxy, on the second one you are redirecting transparently the LAN traffic into the proxy, and on the final step you are blocking any access to the proxy from outside your LAN.
How do I block YouTube on MikroTik?
Block Facebook, YouTube with MikroTik Filter Rule
- Open winbox and login with your login credentials.
- Go to IP > Firewall and then click on Layer7 Protocols tab.
- Click on PLUS SIGN (+) to create a new Layer7 Protocol with Regex.
- Put a meaningful name such as Facebook in Name input box.
- Now put ^.
How do I block ports on YouTube?
If you would like to block YouTUbe across all browsers in a computer, follow the steps outlined below:
- First, open your computer’s ‘hosts’ file.
- Enter a line at the bottom with YouTube’s address >> Type 127.0.
- Next, type in 127.0.
- Next, save your ‘hosts’ file.
- That’s it!
How do I check if a port is blocked?
Checking Windows Firewall for blocked ports
- Launch Command Prompt.
- Run netstat -a -n.
- Check to see if the specific port is listed. If it is, then it means that the server is listening on that port.
What TCP port does YouTube use?
Port 80 – If you are streaming to YouTube or Facebook, then you will need Port 80 to be open. Port 80 is the same port as is used to surf the web (aka http://).
How do I limit traffic on mikrotik?
Re: The Best way to limit traffic Try using “Queue Tree” + Packet Marking via Mangle Rules. In Queue Tree you can specify packet marks. To mark the packets, go to IP > Firewall > Mangle. In there you can set criteria based on src-ip, dst-ip, in/out-interface, etc.
Is there a way to block YouTube on MikroTik?
You can see that the YouTuve page is not opening. Same if you do from the smart phone application, it will not work. Blocking YouTube on MikroTik can be challenge. Most of people use Layer 7 protocol to block it but then this is too heavy on the MikroTik Router.
How to block YouTube or other video streaming sites?
Create layer7 rules called “youtube”. My understanding layer7 will detect all traffic that contain wording in regexp list. Now open new Terminal winbox and copy paste this rules: The above code work with me. You can experiment using this code: or this code also work but it may be block all the word “video” I am still experimenting on this one.
How to block YouTube traffic without the use of TLS?
Because Layer 7 is to heavy on your Router resources like CPU and memory as for each packet the Firewall on the router is inspecting the Layer 7 and that’s not the best and will cause on heavy traffic usage a lot of packet drops. So what I am going to use instead is the TLS Host.
How to create multiple target list in MikroTik?
To create multiple target list you have to use the exact same “name” and click add button to keep adding. In my case, I use the name “Sekolah”. The word “Sekolah” = school in Indonesia.