RE: Internet Cafe

["Jason Burzenski" <jason.burzenski () kwe com>]

Terry,

What type of gateway are you using to connect your workstations to the
Internet?  There are several commercial solutions available and at least a
handful of open source.  Choose a solution that meets your business
requirements and your budget.

You could create a linux gateway to route packets between your router and
your workstations.  This is a relatively low cost solution (depending on the
value of your time) and a very robust one.
http://lartc.org/howto/
http://ar.linux.it/software/#rshaper

Cisco has some nice hardware solutions that are worth checking out.  This
solution can be a bit expensive but is sure to get the job done.  I would
also look at some other hardware vendors to see if you can find a solution
that better suits you.  Cisco equipment tends to be overly complex and
expensive (and usually pretty darn reliable).

Some vendor provided software solutions include:
http://www.packeteer.com
http://www.etinc.com

These vendors were picked from a random google...  so this should set you in
the right direction for finding a vendor if you prefer this type of
solution.  I don't know any of these products well enough to make a
recommendation.

Regards,

Jason Burzenski







-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Peterson [mailto:tpeterson () snocom org]
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 3:32 PM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: RE: Internet Cafe



I currently own an internet cafe.  Instead of applying strict policies we
have decided to image the hard drives often.  We have found that we had to
lock down the boxes to tight that they became difficult for our customers to
use.  So far, we have not had anyone attempting to compromise the systems or
use our center to source attacks.  Out biggest problem is figuring out a way
to limit bandwidth usage.  Is anyone aware of anyway to limit download
bandwidth on a per machine basis?

Terry Peterson