I don’t know how many people in the particular audience would find this useful, but it is good for the parental units and other non-geek family members, friends who have multiple computers in their home. I think the scariest thing about this article is that the guy was using Windows as his gateway in the first place. To be honest buying a router would be less cost prohibitive than anything, but what would be the fun in that?
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What I really want is something that’ll work with my wireless router, something I can plug in between the router and the broadband connection that will log all sites visited and attempts to access internal stuff, by the IP and/or computer name of those doing the accessing… and block as needed. The router can block but it’s so-so, and it can’t detect other info very well. I want something I can run funnelweb against and build a log of who’s doing the most access and where they’re going. Mostly to help block p2p stuff which residents aren’t supposed to be using the shared connection for, and to detect any abuse of the service by non-residents.
Hmm, I’m doing this already and have been for the last couple of years.
I have our DSL line connected to one NIC in the Linux box (RedHat 8) and a second NIC connects it to my home network. I have network drops in just about every room (some have multiple) and everything is managed from a closet I dedicated to the job.
I also have it running DHCP, Apache (to serve the few web sites I have), Samba and AFP.
Geez, I am a *geek*.