Ryan Coleman cried from the depths of the abyss... > I have a colleague that owns a coffee shop and he gives his customers Comcast's fastest internet (he's a really nice guy). > > But he's got some clients who leech him to share movies and TV shows and he's been getting between 10-30 letters per week from Comcast about these shares. He's spent many hundreds of dollars on wifi routers to try and filter without any luck. I'm sure there is an open source way to do this, but your friend could dump a little cash & pickup a Cisco 800 series ISR router. Many of the 800 series models have wireless. Cisco has a cool thing called NBAR (Network Based Application Recognition) that can block just about anything. The cool this is everything is in one device (firewall, NATing, traffic management, etc). I just picked up a 861 a few months back for one of our offices (non-wireless model), and I like it alot. The ones that have built in wireless are not much more expensive. I think I paid about $300.00 or so. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9555/index.html http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/iosswrel/ps6537/ps6558/ps6616/product_bulletin_c25-627831.html http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps380/prod_models_comparison.html Good Luck. Bob > > I'm thinking a micro computer with dual NICs and running everything through a firewall to filter out and/or monitor traffic. What are you your recommendations? I'm a FreeBSD person by history but I build webservers, not filter/monitor firewalls. > > I'm not against new OSes, either, just be prepared for to give some guiding advice from time to time. > > Thanks, > Ryan Coleman > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >