It’s that time of the school year when kids are not allowed to stay online as much as they want to. So my rusty technical expertise were required to configure my neighbor’s Linksys wireless router to setup some “Access Restrictions.” I though it would be a piece of cake. I mean how hard can it be to “Allow Access” from xx:xx PM until xx:xx PM? WRONG!! As it turns out, life is not that simple.
To cut a long story short, and after much trial and error I managed to accomplish the task by applying multiple Access Polcies:
- Allow Access to my neighbor’s IP address 24/7
- Allow Access to the rest of the network from XX:XX PM to XX:XX PM during weekdays.
- Allow Access to the rest of the network from YY:YY AM to YY:YY PM on weekends.
- Deny Access to ALL 24 hrs/day.
The router executes the policies sequentially. It looks at the 1st policy, which grants unrestricted access to my neighbor’s laptop. The router will then grant the required access depending on each policy it encounters. The last policy denies access to everything that does not match any of the above policies.
In my particular situation I had to complicate my policies a little bit since I had different conditions for each day of the weekend, depending on my neighbor’s requirements, but the whole thing follows the same logic as above.
So far it’s working like a charm. I want to see if this thing will hold for a whole week.
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