Hey Shawn, Interesting problem ... multiple solutions.
I have a couple of teen-aged daughters who won't sleep if Facebook is available. They do everything except SMS via WiFi on their phones. I "solved" this by implementing a white-list of WiFi devices on my wireless router (D-Link DIR-601). The router is configured as normally open. The router has a feature allowing you to establish schedules and to use those schedules to establish access control via MAC identification. In my case, only the MACs for my equipment and my wifes equipment are permitted after 11pm. It would be trivial to get around this via MAC spoofing or possibly even DNS spoofing the time server ... but my kids aren't up to that (yet). Most routers also have a "website filter" feature. Depending on the router you *may* be able to configure this for time-based and/or MAC/IP based access control. Don't forget that most game consoles include a web browser, so if you're MAC or IP filtering that could also be a way around a restriction. Cheers, John J. On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 00:59 -0600, Shawn wrote: > I have a situation where I'll have to limit access to particular web > sites/servics to specific times of the day (i.e. Facebook). What are > the current "better" tools for doing content filtering like this? > > I'm using Untangle as my firewall, and it seems that it will cost > $300ish bucks to get this type of filtering on there. Being a Linux > guy, I know I can do this for no cost, with a little effort on my part. > I'm willing to consider different firewall solutions if needed. > > Comments or recommendations? Thanks! > > Shawn > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
