[K12OSN] OT: Monitoring IM

[Bert Rolston]

Hi Henry,

I've been using IPCop to limit internet access for my step daughter.

When the ADVPROXY and URLFILTER add-ons are installed you can have a lot
of control over WHAT programs access the internet, as well as what times
individuals have access.

Here are the URL's for IPCop and those add-ons.
IPCop 		- http://www.ipcop.org/ which is a fork of Smoothwall
URL Filter	- http://www.urlfilter.net/
ADV Proxy	- http://www.advproxy.net/

ADVProxy has a facility to log unknown apps then let you to add them to
the block list.

URL Filter is squidguard filtering with extras.

Look on the IPCop website for other links, there are plenty of useful
add-ons for IPCop.

My Cop box is a P75 (overclocked to 100 Mhz) with 32MB ram and 1.2GB of
HDD. It handles up to 4 computers on ADSL without grumbling. Performance
would improve if I had 64+ MB RAM.

Cheers,
Bert


> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:50:46 -0400
> From: "Henry Hartley" <henryhartley at westat.com>
> Subject: [K12OSN] OT: Monitoring IM
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> This is sort of off topic but possibly not completely.  I have a K12LTSP
> machine that is currently not actually serving any clients.  We're
> "between houses" right now and our rental doesn't have any internet
> access so right now this isn't an issue.  My plan for our new houses is
> to set up a small K12LTSP server with three clients.  I've got a
> Smoothwall and DansGuardian box set up and that seems to work pretty
> well for what it is but as far as I know, it won't help me here (and
> obviously it isn't doing *anything* right now).  
> 
> My daughter is starting to ask if she can use instant messaging with her
> friends.  So far we've been able to just say no and we may do that for a
> while but sooner or later, she's going to get herself an account and
> start IMing.  I figure I'm better off if I can be the one setting things
> up.  I guess what I'm looking for is something that will let me 
> 
> a) limit connections to a list of IM accounts that I can monitor
> b) keep a log of all messaging
> c) anything else I haven't thought of but should do
> 
> Any suggestions are welcome.
> 
> -- 
> Henry
> 
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