Author Topic: 192.168.1.1 (Read 5376 times)

Bogie · « **on:** April 19, 2009, 04:54:32 PM »

You know, there's nothing quite like shutting down wireless when you have a house full of kids who just started abusing the damn thing...

Myself · « **Reply #1 on:** April 19, 2009, 05:00:17 PM »

Wait until you get to the taking the car keys stage!

AJ Dual · « **Reply #2 on:** April 19, 2009, 05:10:15 PM »

Just click your heels together and say "There's no place like 127.0.0.1... There's no place like 127.0.0.1..."

lee n. field · « **Reply #3 on:** April 19, 2009, 05:20:52 PM »

MAC filtering. The network will look wide open, but they can't get on.

Bogie · « **Reply #4 on:** April 19, 2009, 05:28:47 PM »

Fun part is that one of the kiddies thinks that he's a hacker.

You have no idea what kinda fun I'm having now.

Strings · « **Reply #5 on:** April 19, 2009, 05:32:28 PM »

Too bad you can't set up some kind of filter, so the only thing they can access is some educational site...

cassandra and sara's daddy · « **Reply #6 on:** April 19, 2009, 05:50:30 PM »

if someone can do what strings proposed please let me know how.

MicroBalrog · « **Reply #7 on:** April 19, 2009, 06:31:58 PM »

How does one 'abuse' a wireless?

Bogie · « **Reply #8 on:** April 19, 2009, 06:42:24 PM »

Basically caught 'em watching a buncha youtube stuff that Art's Grammaw would faint over...

Plus, that crap is horrid on bandwidth. I'm a greedy sonovabeyotch.

mfree · « **Reply #9 on:** April 19, 2009, 08:00:33 PM »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file

If you're workgrouped, and you know the admin user/pass on their machine, it'll be a simple job to go to \\computername\c$ and then simply go to the desired host file and point youtube.com or whatever to another IP address.

Something like, oh, 209.61.249.197 . I'm *sure* they'll appreciate it.

Mabs2 · « **Reply #10 on:** April 19, 2009, 08:01:29 PM »

Quote from: Bogie on April 19, 2009, 06:42:24 PM

Basically caught 'em watching a buncha youtube stuff that Art's Grammaw would faint over...

Plus, that crap is horrid on bandwidth. I'm a greedy sonovabeyotch.

What, are you downloading Sailor Moon or something?

Vodka7 · « **Reply #11 on:** April 19, 2009, 08:24:11 PM »

Quote from: Strings on April 19, 2009, 05:32:28 PM

Too bad you can't set up some kind of filter, so the only thing they can access is some educational site...

I don't know of an easy way to do this from just the router, but any decent firmware will allow you to block specific websites. It's under Access Restrictions in Tomato. Hosts isn't the best idea--it's local, and too easy for the kid to change back. Access restrictions happen at the router, and can be tailored to MAC or IP address. So, Bogie can view everything on his PC, but the kids are blocked from everything fun on theirs.

Gewehr98 · « **Reply #12 on:** April 19, 2009, 10:19:14 PM »

Yup.

That's what I did with my router, using the Access Restrictions in Tomato to keep one of the stepsons from downloading so many feature-length adult movies that we were in jeopardy of hitting the Charter 100Gb monthly limit.

He asked me if I knew what happened to his connection. I shrugged my shoulders, and said maybe it was Charter throttling things upstream from us...

Headless Thompson Gunner · « **Reply #13 on:** April 19, 2009, 10:57:09 PM »

I did that to some kids I was babysitting once. Their parents gave strict instructions that they were only allowed to web surf for an hour. After an hour I told 'em to shut it down. They refused and braced for an argument. I didn't argue at all, I just disabled the router.

lee n. field · « **Reply #14 on:** April 19, 2009, 10:58:23 PM »

lnf@augustine:~$ host 209.61.249.197
197.249.61.209.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer polkajammernetwork.org.

<snicker>

rcnixon · « **Reply #15 on:** April 26, 2009, 09:21:26 PM »

Now, if you were using my network, you could throw some QOS at it and restrict their bandwidth until it got boring to watch the hourglass.

Russ

MicroBalrog · « **Reply #16 on:** April 27, 2009, 12:33:54 AM »

Quote

the Charter 100Gb monthly limit.

A 100GB monthly limit? How do you live?

Gewehr98 · « **Reply #17 on:** April 27, 2009, 01:38:42 AM »

We've not exceeded 40Gb/month, so far.

That's based on my router's bandwidth logs.

We also have digital high-definition cable TV, which probably keeps all of us from sucking even more bandwidth via video downloads.

KD5NRH · « **Reply #18 on:** April 27, 2009, 02:08:17 AM »

Quote from: Strings on April 19, 2009, 05:32:28 PM

Too bad you can't set up some kind of filter, so the only thing they can access is some educational site...

OpenDNS is your friend.

Bogie · « **Reply #19 on:** April 27, 2009, 09:02:01 PM »

Does anyone know if there is a cheap router that one can set for "load balancing" or whatever the term is? Bogie want bandwidth, and if teenagers have crawling youtube, well, that's life...

GigaBuist · « **Reply #20 on:** April 27, 2009, 11:47:12 PM »

Quote from: cassandra and sara's daddy on April 19, 2009, 05:50:30 PM

if someone can do what strings proposed please let me know how.

You could do it with Squid I'm sure, but that'd involve setting up a Linux or BSD machine to be the router for your home network.

Bogie · « **Reply #21 on:** April 27, 2009, 11:48:34 PM »

Heh... Upside-down soda can on the antenna seems to have -some- function...

Gewehr98 · « **Reply #22 on:** April 28, 2009, 01:36:00 AM »

Bogie, this is old hat, but keep your eyes open for a Linksys WRT-54G, versions 1.0 through 4.0.

They run Broadcom CPUs, and have enough memory to run either DD-WRT or Tomato firmware.

These firmwares replace the original Linksys Linux kernel with something considerably more powerful.

Then you can tailor your bandwidth per IP address, run QOS filters, and a bazillion other options.

This is a screen capture of my router's internal Tomato pages, note that I have bandwidth prioritizing in this screen:

http://mauser98.com/tomatoqosbasicsettings.jpg

Then I can further classify what ports or IP addresses get a given share of the prioritized bandwidth:

http://mauser98.com/tomatoqosclassification.jpg

I can view bandwidth usage that the router stores in either real-time or 24 hour graphs, or lists as daily, weekly, and monthly values:

http://mauser98.com/tomato24hourbandwidthgraph.jpg

I can also just plain shut down a given computer's Internet access on the home network, simply by setting up access restriction rules. The first one I have here is because one person decided to use Limewire after I told him not to, making for a very chatty network with a bazillion open ports inviting evil things into our side of the firewall. I shut him down between 11:00 PM and 4:00 AM:

http://mauser98.com/tomatoaccessrestriction.jpg

If this sounds or looks too involved for you, let me know. Just find me one of the cheapo Wireless G routers I listed above (eBay has tons of 'em) and I'll flash the software onto it, then mail it out to you posthaste. You can leave your home network in the usual 192.168.1.1 address range, or do something like the 10.10.10.1 range I use here in deference to my wife's VPN tunneling to her office computer.

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