[K12OSN] network control?

[John Lucas]

Any solution incorporating the Squid proxy can use Squid's access control 
rules to allow or disallow access based on time of day; see the squid 
documentation.

One big advantage of running something like IPCop with URLFilter (which is 
Squid based) is that it can perform transparent proxying, meaning that it 
can't be bypassed by "turning off" proxy use in the browser. Running it on 
dedicated hardware means that LTSP resources won't be impacted (network 
bandwidth, CPU, disk, and RAM) by performing double duty as a proxy/content 
filter as well as an LTSP compute server.

n Friday 17 November 2006 14:40, Huck wrote:
> squid and dansguardian ??
> or squidguard...
> for time controls...you could do it many ways...
> multiple config files with a cron running one at 3:30pm and one at 7am..
> or maybe some fancier script when invoked checks the time and loads the
> appropriate config file.
>
> --Huck
>
> Kisakye Alex wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Am looking for an open source toool to control the usage of the school
> > network, by say blocking all requests for yahoo and other websites
> > during school time and weive access after school hours, and if possible
> > can i log which pc or user is accessing restricted sites?
> >
> > Anybody have an idea which open source tool I can use?
> > thanks
> >
> > ALex
> >
> >
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