[K12OSN] OT: Limit Network Access by time

[Caleb Wagnon]

Jim Kronebusch said:
> We have a dorm on campus here that has full internet access into rooms
> 24 hours a day.  We had problems with students accessing pornographic
> sites (this is a high school dorm) so I built a IPCop Router with
> Dansguardian to accomplish content filtering.  Now they are having
> problems with students surfing the net all night and being too tired for
> class so they want to limit access to the internet by time of day
> (Please, no political discussion about why).  Does anyone know a way to
> accomplish this with the existing setup?  I would like to totally
> disable network access after say 10:00PM and say renable at 6:00AM.  It
> is not needed but it would also be awesome to allow the 6 dorm directors
> access 24 hours a day based off of their IP or MAC address (somewhat of
> an exclusion list).

This is accomplished via squid. I found this article that hopefully will help
you:

http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2003/11/20/internet_gateway.html

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Caleb Wagnon MCP A+ CCNA
Technology Coordinator
Fordyce School District
870.352.2968
http://redbugs.dsc.k12.ar.us