Blocking Internet Access using Tomato Firmware
I’m not sure about everyone else but I developed an internal webserver at home, just for use internally at home. Our? son is 8 yrs old and even has his own homepage with links to educational sites such as pbskids.org or edheads.org. On one of my earlier blog posts I described how I re-purposed an old Pentium II into a webserver which is running LINUX distro UBUNTU Jaunty. I am also using this old PC as a proxy and internet content filter server. I configured the browsers on our son’s PC to use the proxy and content filter to prevent access to unwanted and dangerous websites.
The reason I am creating this post is because our son figured out how to bypass the proxy through his browser, he was sneaky and saw me do it one time. So I am going to describe how I removed his internet access through third party firmware on my router requiring him to keep his browser pointing to the proxy, otherwise there will be no internet access even to his favorite children websites.
Old Pentium II 333MHz Repurpose Completed
So if you read my previous post I was gutting my old HP Pavillion Pentium II Tower. Yes it’s an old box from 1998. In the spirit of being “green” I decided to recycle this machine by repurposing rather than throwing it away. So I finally decided how to use it.
I dusted everything out and reinstalled the motherboard, PSU and memory. I also had to take an old but more recent Ethernet card from another PC and install it because in 1998…dial up was the thing. I installed a 60GB HDD with Ubuntu 9.04 as the operating system.
