Just filter, log, and review. Then discipline. Based on violations
On Aug 28, 2011 2:37 PM, "Ryan Sears" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> So the thing you need to realize first and foremost is that kids are
> going to get around it if they're determined enough. OpenDNS allows you
> to filter (and auto-filters a lot of stuff for you) if you just set all
> the computers you want to filter's DNS to 208.67.222.222 (or
> 208.67.220.220), then sign up for the home management stuffs
> (http://www.opendns.com/home/).
>
> As for routing issues, it shouldn't be filtering anything from FIOS, and
> if it is, I'm sure you can un-block it. Usually having a routing
> platform sitting between you and your uplink (IMHO) doesn't give you
> much latency at all. I didn't notice a bit of drop with my 24Mb
> connection when I put a PFSense box in for IDS & VPN.
>
> If you wanted to get crazy (and you have 2 switches) you could just put
> the box in front of everything non-TV, then have it being fed into an
> upstream switch with your TV and router, but that's a pain in the butt
> and not guaranteed to work (as they usually make you register one MAC
only).
>
> Ryan
>
> On 08/28/2011 01:57 PM, craig bowser wrote:
>>
>> Ever since I went to SANSFIRE in DC and saw the protecting the family
>> afterhours presentation, I've been looking into putting in a
>> firewall/web proxy/filter into our home network to monitor and possibly
>> block stuff regarding my kids internet activities. We have some 14 or
>> so devices, half of which are wired and the other half wireless which
>> get to the internet through our Verizon FIOS. All the devices terminate
>> into the FIOS router/switch, including the TV. Then it all goes out the
>> ethernet connection.
>>
>> Normally, I would put my box between the FIOS router WAN port and the
>> external connection. This way it could monitor both the wired and
>> wireless traffic. However, I am nervous that this setup would interfere
>> with the FIOS TV. Does anyone else have a similar setup and installed a
>> monitoring device (i.e. Smoothwall, Astaro, Untangle, etc) and if so,
>> have they seen an impact on TV reception?
>>
>> Is there an alternate configuration that may perform better?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Craig L Bowser
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