what about a book? I don't think blocking the lad is the best idea. He'll either find his way out or, if not, feel frustrated.
Tell him about Dostoevsky; teenager of his kind use to like the Russian 2008/7/6, Daniel Staal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > --As of July 5, 2008 10:43:48 PM -0400, Woodchuck is alleged to have said: > >> What would be wrong with just adding a pair of rules: >> >> block drop quick from any to 192.168.1.100 >> block drop quick from 192.168.1.100 to any >> >> supposing .100 is the Xbox? >> >> Have two pf.confs and a cron job. One would also want to flush >> state during the load. I dunno if this is automatic or not. > > --As for the rest, it is mine. > > Nothing really, besides the complexity (and insecurity) of the _other_ > pf.conf: The Xbox needs several ports open, both in and out, including > receiving data on random ports. Using the UPnP setup you can have only > those ports _actually in use_ open, and they will automatically close when > the the XBox is turned off, even if it is during the 'allowed' times. (Or, > actually, when they time out, but that would just be a few minutes.) > > Also, we haven't discussed whether the XBox has a static address: I assume > you could assign one, but using UPnP you can do this (easily) with a > dynamic address. > > There is also a side benefit: Many common chat programs will also use UPnP > (or the other common protocol for the same purpose, which the daemon also > supports), so this would automatically shut them down for the night as well. > > Anyway, I mostly wanted to mention it as an option, partly because when I > went looking for a daemon to support that protocol (for a couple of other > things), it took me a while to find one. > > Daniel T. Staal > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you > are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use > the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will > expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, > whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of > local copyright law. > --------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Openbsd-newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies > _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
