Control Internet Access

I hope this is the right forum to ask this question: Is there a way to control Internet access? I work for a school district and this is a real problem for me. I need to control Internet access. Now, for example, any one can start a computer and access the Internet. I would like to have a way of disabling the access.

yes you can control this, what type of equipment do you have right now? what type of router, firewall, proxy server if any?

if you have a cisco router with firewall ios or PIX you can enable auth proxy and connect that to secure acs or you could connect it to websense or a multitude of other 3rd party software programs. as well proxy servers have this ability also, if you have an inline content manager like mcafee webshield or CA secure content manager you can do content management on these as well.

Hi,

I have not tried this program, but yesterday I stumbled upon a program called Browse Control from a company called Codeworks. They use a classroom environment as an example on their web page as a typical use for the program.

Again, I have no affiliation with this company or product and can't vouch for how well it works, but you may wish to check it out.

http://www.codework.com/bcontrol/product.html

Regards,

Tom G

Installing software on every machine is not the way to go. Install/configure a free Apache proxy server in between the other servers and the internet. And then use the ProxyBlock directive to block sites that you don't want people to go to. In addition you can create and assign user id's and paswords of the people you want to have internet access. Then set the proxy setting in all the browser windows to point to the newly installed proxy server.

Cost $0.00
http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi


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My internet connection is thru dsl. Is it possible to connect directly using pppoe on 1 machine and make it running as a proxy server too? If it is possible, how do i do that?

YES, it is possible simply configure your pppoe connection on the same computer you download and setup the proxy server on (http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi). Then configure the proxy settings in all the other browsers.

Is apache capable of running as proxy server? I tried visiting ur link but then all i see there are web servers.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_proxy.html