On Tuesday 18 November 2003 12:02 am, Newman Emanouel wrote: > Hello > > I an new to this list and would like some help with the following > > I would like to limit users accessing the internet between the hours of > 11pm 5am but still allow other services like mail to access the net. I have > all my servers on a specific range and all my users on another range. > > What I would like to do is to stop users from accessing between the hours > of 11pm to 5am and then allow normal access > > Can anyone please point me to a site which has detailed instructions on how > to do this.
If you are using Linux then the built-in firewalling code called netfilter (iptables) can handle time-specific rules for different protocols such as http, smtp and pop3. See http://www.netfilter.org for more infomation, and http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/iptables-tutorial.html for one of the best tutorials in existence. Antony. -- The trouble with the French is that they don't have a word for 'entrepreneur'. - George W Bush, president of the United States of America Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.
