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    Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) Lite
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      Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) Lite

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        What is Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) (Lite)?

        Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) (Lite) is a security feature that allows Organization Admins to block specific ports and protocols from being accessed while connected to your organization’s Virtual Private Gateway.

        For example, you can use DPI to block specific messaging services like Snapchat or Viber and peer-to-peer file-sharing apps like Stealthnet or Thunder.

        How to enable DPI (Lite)?

        1. Go to Control Panel → Network → Servers or Gateways. Choose the dedicated server, click Configure next to it, and select Deep Packet Inspection (Lite) from the dropdown menu;

        Configure dropdown DPI.png

        1. In the request form, select which ports and protocols you want to inspect and block. With NordLayer, you can choose from up to 400 ports and protocols (find the list below);

        2. Once you’re done, click on Request Deep Packet Inspection. Please allow up to 24 hours for the feature to be enabled. You will get an email with the confirmation once it’s ready.

        Deep Packet Inspection modal.png

        What can you block with DPI (Lite)?

        NordLayer allows you to choose from up to 400 ports and protocols to inspect and block. Here are they, listed in alphabetical order:

        CategoryPorts and Protocols
        AdTechAds Analytics Track
        Adult ContentAdult Content
        Amazon Alexa ServicesAmazon Alexa
        Apple ServicesApple TV Plus, iCloud Private Relay, iCloud, iTunes, Push, Siri, Store
        Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting ProtocolDiameter
        Border Gateway ProtocolBGP
        CAPWAP ProtocolCAPWAP
        Client-server RPC ProtocolRX
        Collaboration SoftwareGoTo
        Common Object Request Broker Architecture SystemsCORBA
        Constrained Application ProtocolCoAP
        Content-hosting ServicePastebin
        CryptoCryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero) and Mining
        Cybersecurity ServicesAvast, Avast Secure DNS, CyberSec, FortiClient
        Distributed Network Protocol 3DNP3
        Distributed Relational Database ArchitectureDRDA
        DNS ServicesDHCP, DNS, mDNS, OpenDNS
        Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Version 6DHCPv6
        E-commerceAlibaba, Amazon, eBay
        EAQ ProtocolEAQ
        Email Client ProtocolPOP3, POPS
        Exterior Gateway ProtocolEGP
        File SharingDropbox, FTP (Control and Data), MS OneDrive, Rsync, TFTP
        Financial Information eXchange ProtocolFIX
        Free Online EncyclopediaWikipedia
        GamingCryNetwork, Dota 2, Electronic Arts, Epic Games, Gaijin Entertainment, GeForce Now, Heroes of the Storm, NVIDIA, Raft, RakNet, Riot Games, Roblox, Source Engine, Steam Datagram Relay, Toca Boca, Activision, Among Us, Armagetron, CrossFire, Dofus, Genshin Impact, Guild Wars, Half-Life 2, MapleStory, Nintendo, PlayStation, Play Store, StarCraft, Steam, Warcraft 3, World of Kung Fu, World of Warcraft, Xbox
        General-purpose Distributed Memory-caching SystemMemcached
        Generic Routing Encapsulation ProtocolGRE
        Google ServicesGoogle Chat, Google Classroom, Google Cloud, Google Meet, Data Saver, Gmail, Google, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Maps, Google Services, Waze
        GPRS Tunneling ProtocolGTP
        GSMA Accredited Global Mobile NetworkTruphone
        H. 248 Media Gateway Control ProtocolMegaco
        High-speed Web-based Traffic Analysisntopng
        Hypertext Transfer ProtocolHTTP, HTTP2, WebDAV, DoH/DoT, HTTP CONNECT and HTTP Proxy
        IEC60870 Communication ProtocolIEC60870
        Infrastructure/NetworkingAliCloud, Amazon AWS, Beckhoff ADS, Cassandra, Ceph, CIP (Common Industrial Protocol), Cloudflare Warp, Controller Area Network (CAN), DCERPC (Distributed Computing Environment / Remote Procedure Call), Ethernet/IP, Ether-S-Bus, EthersIO, FastCGI, FINS (Fieldbus Interface Specification), FTPS (File Transfer Protocol Secure), Gearman, GTP-C (GPRS Tunneling Protocol Control Plane), GTP' (GPRS Tunneling Protocol Prime), GTP-U (GPRS Tunneling Protocol User Plane), HAProxy, HART-IP (Highway Addressable Remote Transducer over IP), HiSLIP (High-Speed LAN Instrument Protocol), HL7 (Health Level 7), HP Virtgrp (HP Virtual Group), HSRP (Hot Standby Router Protocol), I3D, IEC 62056 (International Electrotechnical Commission standard for electricity metering), IEEE C37.118 (Standard for Synchrophasors for Power Systems), IP PIM (Internet Protocol Protocol Independent Multicast), ISO 9506-1 MMS (Manufacturing Message Specification), KCP (Kademlia Control Protocol), Kismet, Meraki Cloud, NAT-PMP (Network Address Translation - Port Mapping Protocol), OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol), OPC UA (OPC Unified Architecture), OpenFlow, PGM (Pragmatic General Multicast), PROFINET IO, PTPv2 (Precision Time Protocol version 2), RESP (REdis Serialization Protocol), RMCP (Remote Management Control Protocol), Roughtime, RTPS (Real-Time Publish-Subscribe), S7commPlus, Service Location Protocol (SLP), SRTP (Secure Real-time Transport Protocol), TP-Link SHP, VXLAN (Virtual Extensible LAN), Yojimbo, Z39.50, Cisco Skinny, Citrix, Cloudflare, CPHA (Checkpoint High Availability), DTLS (Datagram Transport Layer Security), MSSQL-TDS (Microsoft SQL Server Tabular Data Stream), NATS, SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), Targus DataSpeed, TLS (Transport Layer Security), VMware, and WSD (Web Services Dynamic Discovery)
        Inter-Asterisk eXchangeIAX
        Internet Control Message ProtocolICMP, ICMPv6
        Internet Group Management ProtocolIGMP
        Internet Message Access ProtocolIMAP, IMAPS
        Internet Printing ProtocolIPP
        Internet Protocol SecurityIPsec
        IP Tunneling ProtocolIP in IP
        IPv6 Transition ProtocolTeredo
        IT Infrastructure Monitoring SoftwareCheckmk
        Lightweight Directory Access ProtocolLDAP
        Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution ProtocolLLMNR
        Locator ID Separation ProtocolLISP
        Lotus Notes Web Service ProtocolLotusNotes
        Machine to Machine Network ProtocolMQTT
        Meeting and Calling SoftwareFuze
        Messaging Protocol/ServicesLine, Line Call, Stomp, Telegram VoIP, Threema, AMQP, IMO, QQ, Signal, Slack, Telegram, Viber, WeChat, WhatsApp, WhatsApp Call, WhatsApp Files
        Microsoft ServicesAzure, Outlook, Microsoft (General), Microsoft 365, MySQL, Teams, Windows Update
        Mobile Virtual Network OperatorTuenti
        Monitoring/SCIMMunin
        NetFlow ProtocolNetflow
        Network Authentication ProtocolKerberos
        Network Basic Input/Output SystemNetbios
        Network File System ProtocolNFS
        Network Time ProtocolNTP
        News and Email ServicesYahoo
        News ServicesAFP, Bloomberg, CNN
        Ookla Speedtest ProtocolOokla
        Open Collaboration Services APIOCS
        Open Shortest Path First Routing ProtocolOSPF
        OpenID-based Single Sign-on ServiceUbuntuOne
        Oracle ServicesOracle
        OtherBACnet, CacheFly, Crashlytics, MS-RPCH, Pluralsight, TeslaServices, UMAS, Xiaomi, NestLogSink
        Peer-to-peer File SharingSyncthing, UFTP, BitTorrent, eDonkey, Gnutella, Kontiki, Pandora, TVUPlayer
        Printer ProtocolBJNP
        Protocol that Authenticates CommunicationsDNSCrypt
        Quick UDP Internet Connections ProtocolQUIC
        Real Time Streaming ProtocolRTSP
        Real-Time Messaging ProtocolRTMP
        Real-time Transport ProtocolRTP
        Relational Database Management SystemPostgreSQL
        Remote AccessJSON-RPC, NoMachine, Radmin, RSH, AnyDesk, RADIUS, RDP, TeamViewer, VNC
        RTP Control ProtocolRTCP
        SaaS CRMSalesforce
        Sampling Technology for Network MonitoringSFlow
        SAP ServicesSAP
        Scalable Service-Oriented Middleware over IPSOMEIP
        Secure Shell ProtocolSSH
        Secure Simple Mail Transfer ProtocolSMTPS
        Serial Communication ProtocolModbus
        Server Message Block Application Layer Network ProtocolSMBv1
        Session Traversal Utilities for NAT ProtocolSTUN
        Short Message Peer-to-Peer ProtocolSMPP
        Siemens S7 Communication ProtocolS7comm
        Simple Mail Transfer ProtocolSMTP
        Simple Network Management ProtocolSNMP
        Simple Service Discovery ProtocolSSDP
        Skype-like Services in ChinaVHUA
        Social MediaBadoo, Facebook VoIP, Facebook Reel Story, Likee, OICQ, Sina, Sina Weibo, Tencent, Tencent Games, Tencent Video, VK, Discord, Facebook, Instagram, IRC, KakaoTalk, KakaoTalk Voice, Last.fm, LinkedIn, Messenger, Pinterest, Reddit, Snapchat, Snapchat Call, TikTok, Tumblr, Twitter
        Socket Secure Network ProtocolSOCKS
        Software DevelopmentElasticsearch, GitLab, Kafka, Protocol Buffers (Protobuf), Thrift, Tuyalp, AJP, Git, GitHub, MongoDB
        Stream Control Transmission ProtocolSCTP
        Streaming Services1kxun, Dailymotion, DAZN, DIRECTV, Edgecast, HBO, iHeartRadio, Livestream, MPEG-DASH, Showtime, SiriusXM Radio, Tidal, TiVo Connect, TuneIn, Vimeo, Vudu, Amazon Video, Deezer, Disney+, Hulu, Icecast, iFlix, Netflix, PPStream, SoundCloud, Spotify, Twitch, Vevo, YouTube, YouTube Upload, Zattoo
        Syslog ProtocolSyslog
        System Statistics Collection DaemonCollectd
        Telnet ProtocolTelnet
        Tool to Monitor IT InfrastructureZabbix
        UBNTAC2 ProtocolUBNTAC2
        Usenet ProtocolUsenet
        Video Conferencing, Cloud Calling & Screen SharingWebex
        Virtual Router Redundancy ProtocolVRRP
        VoIP ProtocolMumble, SD-RTN, SignalVoIP, Skype Teams, Skype Teams Call, H.323, Jabber, MGCP, MPEG-TS, NoE, SIP, TeamSpeak, Zoom
        VPN ServicesMullvad, OperaVPN, Private Internet Access, ProtonVPN, Psiphon, SoftEther, Tailscale, TunnelBear, UltraSurf, CiscoVPN, Hotspot Shield, OpenVPN, PPTP, Tinc, Tor, WireGuard
        Weather ServiceAccuWeather
        WebSocket ProtocolWebSocket
        WHOIS Query and Response ProtocolWHOIS-DAS
        Windows SMB v2/v3 ProtocolSMBv23
        X Display Manager Control ProtocolXDMCP
        Yandex ServicesCloud, Direct, Disk, Mail, Market, Metrika, Music
        ZeroMQ Message Transport ProtocolZeroMQ

        Note: In case you have any questions or are experiencing any issues, please feel free to contact our 24/7 customer support team.

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