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Richard Brown wrote: > Hi > > On 20 Jul 2009, at 11:19, Terry Hill wrote: > > >> Is it possible to temporary block a user accessing the internet using >> a netgear 834dg please? >> >> Tell us a bit more Richard, it may help us to hone in on what you >> need. >> >> > > I work at an office where occasionally another bloke brings his son in > and promptly dumps in him front of a computer. He is not allowed to > access the internet but as soon as his dad's back is turned - he fires > up internet grabbing resource hungry stupid flash games. > > The guy has said dump him off by all means - and I would love to! > > Rich > Well with a proxy server (maybe an IPCop box or something like that) you could block access to such sites, ideally I guess you could do with something running Squidguard or Dansguardian. That way you could specify that games sites are blocked. Or maybe if you could find out what sites they are, add them to the hosts file and point them to 127.0.0.1 I assume it's a Windows XP/Vista box? In which case the hosts file can be found in C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts (assuming Windows is installed on the C: drive). An example of this which you can use to block the sites is... 127.0.0.1 www.microsoft.com Put the destination IP address first, then the web site and then every time something requests the site it will point to 127.0.0.1 Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html