parental control - outbound firewall?

2008-09-09 Thread Gabor Szabo
I have been using the Moreshet service since the days of Actcom but in the past couple of months it has been down very frequently for several hours meaning I could not use the Internet at all. I am thinking on setting up something on the computer use by my children. First I thought setting up a pr

Re: parental control - outbound firewall?

2008-09-09 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Gabor, Filtering everything? what if your kids using Google to search for things? Google will send them to web sites that you closed due to too-much restriction? do you really want your kids to call you to add sites so they can read what they were looking for? How about blocking sites progress

Re: parental control - outbound firewall?

2008-09-09 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 11:11:06AM +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote: I have been using the Moreshet service since the days of Actcom but in the past couple of months it has been down very frequently for several hours meaning I could not use the Internet at all. I am thinking on setting up something on

RE: parental control - outbound firewall?

2008-09-09 Thread ronys
Hi Gabor, As a parent, I've decided not to restrict my kids' access to the Internet by technological means. Instead, I've discussed with each of them the do's and don'ts of "surfing" the Internet. As part of the struggle against various censorshi & big-brother laws, ISOC and Bezeq have come up wi

RE: parental control - outbound firewall?

2008-09-09 Thread Meir Michanie
I use DansGuargian using DENY ALL and just a small whitelist. my kids are 8 and 6. I tried explaining but it was to much to resist the temptation when at a kids portal got a graphic link to a flash game with rated content. I think that only if you reject flash you may have a solution. I do not thin

Re: Byte per month?

2008-09-09 Thread Ohad Levy
I use vnstat, has both text and web based interfaced. Ohad On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > How do I keep track of the number of bytes sent and received per month? > > To be exact I'm running a 2.4.34 kernel, and the interface is ppp0 > using the

Re: parental control - outbound firewall?

2008-09-09 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote about "Re: parental control - outbound firewall?": > Hi Gabor, > > Filtering everything? what if your kids using Google to search for > things? Google will send them to web sites that you closed due to > too-much restriction? do you really want your kids