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>I work at a nearly all Mac school, and teach two sections of Computer
Re: Here''s my idea, will it work?
From: Chris Buxton
Date: Tuesday, February 2, 1999
Time: 2:17:00 am
>Applications in an windoz lab.
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>The problem is w/o use of Apple Network Assistant, I can't limit my
>student's access to the internet, while allowing them to use the browser
>to preview pages that they are authoring. I know that there is software
>like ANAT for windoz machines, but I can't afford it at this time.
A cheap solution (relatively, anyway) would be to use a proxy server. If
you were to use IPNetRouter from Sustainable Softworks
(http://www.sustworks.com/), you could simply walk up to the proxy server
and push a few buttons to take down the Internet connection. This wouldn't
affect any intranet traffic, just outbound traffic.
You could easily divide the physical network into several logical networks,
using different bogus class C networks, and link them all through the proxy
server. You'd only need one real IP address (for the proxy server itself)
and could turn on or off Internet access for each logical network
independently.
This wouldn't need a high-powered machine to run, either. Any old quadra
should be able to handle this job just fine, so long as it isn't used for
anything else and you give it a nice, stable version of Open Transport.
Hope this helps.
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Chris Buxton
Internet and Database Consultant
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