router firmware with white listing ability

[Jay Askren]

I recently bought a WRT54GS router.  I installed DD-WRT and was shocked to find it doesn't have a white-listing capability that I've found on other routers in the past.  In other words, I want to for certain computers block all websites not included in the approved list of websies.  Is there any open source firmware which has this ability?  

Since DD-WRT is just Linux, I believe I could set up ip-tables to do what I want, but I don't know ip-tables well enough to be able to do that.  Thanks.

Jay

[Sean Gates]

Jay,

Not sure why you're not just using OpenDNS?  They have the ability to whitelist.  And you can set your router up to use it exclusively, and block traffic at the DNS level.

-- Sean

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[Jay Askren]

I am using OpenDNS for general filtering.  The router is set up to use OpenDNS to filter everything that comes in our home.  For some of our computers though I would like more stringent filtering, thus the whitelisting.  I'd rather do it at the router so I don't have to install any software on the computers themselves.

Jay

  I really want two layers of filtering.  I'm using OpenDNS for all of our computers, but for some of our computers.

[Shawn Willden]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Jay Askren <jay.a...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am using OpenDNS for general filtering.  The router is set up to use OpenDNS to filter everything that comes in our home.  For some of our computers though I would like more stringent filtering, thus the whitelisting.  I'd rather do it at the router so I don't have to install any software on the computers themselves.

Here's the first option that comes to my mind:

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Squid_Transparent_Proxy

It does assume that you have a box somewhere that can run squid.  Basically, you configure your router to forward all HTTP requests to the squid proxy, then configure your access control through squid..

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Shawn

[Jay Askren]

I may have found something that will work for me.  It looks like Gargoyle can do white-list access restrictions:  

http://www.gargoyle-router.com/index.php

Thanks everyone.

[Lars Rasmussen]

Jay, please let us know how this works out!

If so I might consider switching from Tomato to Gargoyle because my wife just asked me to set up a single computer for the kids that is restricted from all sites except those we specify.

Lars