Re: Question regarding home filter using FIOS

[Ryan Sears <rdsears () mtu edu>]

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So the thing you need to realize first and foremost is that kids are
going to get around it if they're determined enough. OpenDNS allows you
to filter (and auto-filters a lot of stuff for you) if you just set all
the computers you want to filter's DNS to 208.67.222.222 (or
208.67.220.220), then sign up for the home management stuffs
(http://www.opendns.com/home/).

As for routing issues, it shouldn't be filtering anything from FIOS, and
if it is, I'm sure you can un-block it. Usually having a routing
platform sitting between you and your uplink (IMHO) doesn't give you
much latency at all. I didn't notice a bit of drop with my 24Mb
connection when I put a PFSense box in for IDS & VPN.

If you wanted to get crazy (and you have 2 switches) you could just put
the box in front of everything non-TV, then have it being fed into an
upstream switch with your TV and router, but that's a pain in the butt
and not guaranteed to work (as they usually make you register one MAC only).

Ryan

On 08/28/2011 01:57 PM, craig bowser wrote:
> Ever since I went to SANSFIRE in DC and saw the protecting the family
> afterhours presentation, I've been looking into putting in a
> firewall/web proxy/filter into our home network to monitor and possibly
> block stuff regarding my kids internet activities.  We have some 14 or
> so devices, half of which are wired and the other half wireless which
> get to the internet through our Verizon FIOS.  All the devices terminate
> into the FIOS router/switch, including the TV.  Then it all goes out the
> ethernet connection. 
>
> Normally, I would put my box between the FIOS router WAN port and the
> external connection.  This way it could monitor both the wired and
> wireless traffic.  However, I am nervous that this setup would interfere
> with the FIOS TV.  Does anyone else have a similar setup and installed a
> monitoring device (i.e. Smoothwall, Astaro, Untangle, etc) and if so,
> have they seen an impact on TV reception?
>
> Is there an alternate configuration that may perform better?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Craig L Bowser
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