[PLUG] Simple & inexpensive proxy server for community PCs?

[Russell Senior]

Our Personal Telco firmware (based on OpenWrt/LEDE) has a dumb bittorrent
blocker, and we include iftop and tcpdump as management tools.  If you know
someone is doing something they shouldn't be, it isn't very difficult to
figure out which client is responsible, and then you can black-hole them
and wait until they come to you and you can have a gentle conversation with
them about appropriate and inappropriate usage.  If it's an internal
network, it should be even easier to have that conversation.

On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 10:04 AM, Bill Barry <bill at billbarry.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 3:20 PM Mike C. <mconnors1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm doing some volunteer IT work for a small, local non-profit that has a
> > few Free Geek Linux Mint computers connected to a Zyxel modem w. 10 mb/s
> > CenturyLink internet connection.
> >
> > In the past they've had the typical problems of inappropriate content and
> > piracy and have received the cease & desist letters from CenturyLink.
> >
> > The Zyxel modem doesn't have much in the way of features & functionality
> > for content filtering and service or web site blocking.
> >
> > Just using your current setup you can get some content filtering using
> DNS. Opendns provides a free service to do that.
> https://www.opendns.com/home-internet-security/
>
> I don't know if  that will help with the piracy usage though.
>
> Bill
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