Just filter, log, and review. Then discipline. Based on violations On Aug 28, 2011 2:37 PM, "Ryan Sears" <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > 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 >> ____________________________ >> >> This email is measured by size. Bits and bytes may have settled during >> transport. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pauldotcom mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom >> Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iF4EAREIAAYFAk5aihcACgkQt/95fIeU+XZ1AwD/fmaaB53+thAMd0VBGR5FH4l6 > JOAOMdQqzfR+Mvhmd5kBAJBohTOweHeihToG+h47MFoOM+dFNqgeK8jwt31fFCzC > =+MfD > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
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