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Half Bridged Modem

Offline geoff

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Half Bridged Modem
« on: September 13, 2009, 03:08:54 AM »
I've been looking for a very simple way of blocking a few basic sites (facebook, myspace, youtube, twitter, RSVP, etc.) and have found that the Billion 5200 series ADSL Modems have URL blocking and will half bridge.

Half bridge seems perfect as it allows the SME Server to do its thing while filtering the 'usual' timewasters. Any comments?

Offline janet

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Re: Half Bridged Modem
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2009, 03:23:59 AM »
geoff

Install Dansguardian on sme to achieve the same/better result PLUS you get site content scoring/filtering/blocking on a real time basis & other additional controls
See
http://wiki.contribs.org/Dansguardian

You might like to look here at all the add on contribs (and this list is not all of them)
http://wiki.contribs.org/Category:Contrib

and here for other Howtos (also not all of them as some are hosted externally)
http://wiki.contribs.org/Category:Howto

Everything you want to know about sme server starts here
http://wiki.contribs.org/Main_Page
Please search before asking, an answer may already exist.
The Search & other links to useful information are at top of Forum.

Offline geoff

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Re: Half Bridged Modem
« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2009, 12:58:28 AM »

Install Dansguardian on sme to achieve the same/better result PLUS you get site content scoring/filtering/blocking on a real time basis & other additional controls
See
http://wiki.contribs.org/Dansguardian


Half Bridge is really simple, quick, and it works for what I want.

Thanks for your comments.