Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 5:05 Post subject: Linksys Parental Control Support?
I currently own a WRT54GS v3.376 and am considering DD-WRT for its additional power and management capability. I am also subscribing to the Linksys Parental Control for my two kids. Is there a way to preserve this capability when using DD-WRT? If not, is there an alternative that is supported that does not depend on client PCs being continuously updated?
If you must retain Parental Controls, then take a look at Thibor 14 (not 15). www.thibor.co.uk _________________ WRT54G v2.0 (Bridge)
WRT54GL v1.0 (Bridge) (x3)
WRT54GS v3.0 (Routing)
WL520gU (Routing)
Running DD-WRT v24 SP2 - http://www.dd-wrt.com
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 18:03 Post subject: Re: Parental Controls
codegypsy wrote:
There is not support for parental controls that I have seen.
Most 3rd Party Firmwares Remove Parental Controls.
Depending on what you need Controlled or limited, you will find you can do almost everything you need with DD-WRT or HyperWRT-Thibor Builds.
I don't like the idea of outside services doing what should be done in the home.
Read up on Firewalls, and Limiting.
If your looking to just allow or block sites, I would HyperWRT-Thibor as there are many more GUI fields to put in.
Also micro-build of DD-WRT will do most everything you need and keep your router running very healthy. :D
Good Luck
./codegypsy
Thanks, the problem with "doing it in the home" is that there is no way one can realistically keep current a block list and therefore must do it as an access list. However, even that is a problem as I have multiple computers using the router and I don't want to have all of them restricted. This was where the Linksys approach was useful as I could limit my kids without having my wife and I restricted. I am not aware of another technique besides the "proxy" method that would have this flexibility. Comments and suggestions welcome.
