[plug] Prevent downloads

[James Elliott]

Hi Simon

You asked what "an Alloy server" is.

There are a number of inexpensive devices which:
* act as a gateway
* share the Internet to as many computers as you like
* share e-mail addresses - i.e. the company can have one address and the
server can share this among 50 or 100 staff, for example, your ISP might
allocate you  mybiz at bigpond.com and the server can then allocate it's own
internal addresses, like sue.mybiz at bigpond.com , jane.mybiz at bigpond.com ,
fred.mybiz at bigpond.com
etc ...
* act as a DHCP server allocating IP addresses to each computer/device on
the LAN

Two popular brands that I have used in the past are  D-Link and Alloy
Alloy also makes a large range of internet cards, hubs, switches and other
network gear

I hope that helps.

James Elliott

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simon Scott" <sscott at iinet.net.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] Prevent downloads


Not that Ive done it myself (hopefully someone can fill in the blanks) but I
believe you should be looking at Squid, some transparent proxying iptables
rules, and some squid configuration ......

> I was asked how the coordinator could prevent casual computer users
(school
> kids and tourists) from downloading applications like games, Real Jukebox,
> etc, from the Internet .... and I can't think of a quick answer.
>
> Currently there are 6 computers on a Windows 98 network with an Alloy
> DHCP-server/Internet sharing gateway device.  They are about to upgrade
and
> I am trying to sell them the merits of Linux, but it would improve my
> credibility if I can answer their present question

Whats an Alloy server?