Well, i didn't grow up with messenger at my fingertips and that didn't kill me. I think it's wrong to consider that someone will lose productivity if it's cut off from modern ways of communicating.
I for one do not use messenger anymore at my workplace since the general manager requested that i block IM access. And normal mail like yahoo mail and others is still functional. The baddest thing that IM brings is exactly the inerruption of workflow. If you have an ideea and someone buzzes you most of the time you lose it if you stop what you were thinking and start chattting with that person. Getting back to the original problem, my best approach that i could come up with is splitting the lan in multiple subnets with different access rights. Say, the developers subnet does not have access to IM and some sites (IM proxying sites and others) and the sales peoples subnet has full access to internet. We have a fileserver on the corporate network which runs a samba domain controller but i stumbled on some problems regarding subnets. I have only one nic which connects all the workstations to the internet. I run the samba domain controller in a virtual machine using openvz. The problem is that i cannot have many subnets connecting to the shorewall box because shorewall does not accepts the routeback parameter if an interface sits on more subnets. I was thinking at (as the documentation states) using multiple subnets on the same interface. I create the aliases and the zones but i need that some of the subnets to talk to each other hence i need to use the routeback option for the lan interface. the error messaage goes like this : Validating interfaces file... ERROR: The routeback option may not be specified on a multi-zone interface Does someone made a similar setup and can give a few tips ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list Shorewall-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users