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Re: Question regarding home filter using FIOS
From: Tim Krabec <tkrabec () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 20:22:43 -0400
Just filter, log, and review. Then discipline. Based on violations On Aug 28, 2011 2:37 PM, "Ryan Sears" <rdsears () mtu edu> 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 Pauldotcom () mail pauldotcom com 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 Pauldotcom () mail pauldotcom com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
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- Question regarding home filter using FIOS craig bowser (Aug 28)
- Re: Question regarding home filter using FIOS Ryan Sears (Aug 28)
- Re: Question regarding home filter using FIOS Tim Krabec (Aug 28)
- Re: Question regarding home filter using FIOS Hembrow, Chris (Aug 30)
- Re: Question regarding home filter using FIOS Ryan Sears (Aug 28)