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OT : Router Parental Controls
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I'm trying to set up my router to stop the kids using the internet and
windows live messenger after a certain time. I can do this in the router set
up page but I'm trying to decipher the various options I have. The obvious
service to block is HTTP being the internet but the other choices for WLM
are restricted to AIM, FTP and PPTP.
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I'm guessing it could be AIM but does anyone else have an idea?
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AIM is the AOL Instant Messenger, that's probably the protocol you want
to block. I doubt they'd do much on FTP or PPTP (VPN) unless they want
to connect to your work :-)
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Hint: AOL Instant Messenger != Windows Live Messenger; it's most likely
not using that port.
I think Windows Live Messenger uses HTTP and/or port 1863; ah, yes:
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I think it's capable of picking any port within a range,
tbh, so it might be easier to open suitable ports than
block unsuitable ones, IYSWIM.
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$ grep msnp /etc/services
msnp 1863/tcp # MSN Messenger
msnp 1863/udp
That should do for starters, until they learn about anonymous proxies,
tunnelling connections, etc., etc.
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Well yes. Proper edukayshun is the only way forward, imho.
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I tend to use a modified subset of shouting and pointing to control sprog
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I tend towards that too.
Failing that, I just switch off wireless comms in my router whilst I
continue using it with a cable. Or, if I decide to go floating with my
laptop, I tell the router there is only one internal IP address available,
Mine.
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internet usage.
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Since the eldest's computer has gone bang (How do I work out if it is
the processor or the motherboard - everything else is OK?) he's
reduced to surfing using the wii, which makes it far harder to kick
him off as he bought it from his own money.
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Oh well, that makes it ok then.
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It makes the 'sod off it's my computer' line redundant.
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What about the "sod off, it's my modem/router/cash that
pays for the ISP/house/rules/parenting skills" line?
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When your lad (you have a boy and a girl iirc?) is nearly 17 and
you're treading the line between treating them as a semi adult while
still having parental responsibility for them, I'll look forward to
the abject grovelling and wails of 'I didn't realise it would be like
this'.
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I have two girls. It is a whole new world of pain already.
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Pah, I have three girls and a son, why do you think I don't live with=20
them any more.=20
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Nah, nothing that drastic - more out of my choice.=20
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Careful, if the wind changes they'll stay like that.
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I have, this very evening, successfully pointed out to the little minx that,
as she has an exam in the morning, an unexpected late-night guest staying
over, and various other stuff going on, the notion of staying up past 1am
watching Johnny Mnemonic, of all things, was probably worth reconsidering.
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She could have at least picked a decent film. I'm sick of this exam
thing. It's either 'Oh Noes, I have an exam in the morning, woe is me,
I need to relax' or 'I haven't got an exam and therefore don't need to
go to bed at a reasonable hour'. The lack of revision has hit home
today I think, as his mechanics exam has been proclaimed the worst
yet. Whether the lazy git will actually now do some work for the
remaining few has yet to be seen.
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