Managing Firewall IPChains rules

I'm an administrator at a local college and they needed some easy way to shut down internet traffic during class houres. I couldn't run a webserver on the firewall, so I had a cronjob run a perlscript to fetch computer IPs from the actual webserver and change IPChains rules accordingly. blah

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RE: Managing Firewall IPChains rules by Q*bert (Sexton) on Jun 17, 2000 at 14:33 UTC
Why in the world would they want to do that? Are they such a low-quality institution that their students wouldn't go to class if they could surf the Web instead?	[reply]
RE: RE: Managing Firewall IPChains rules by cleen (Pilgrim) on Jun 17, 2000 at 14:43 UTC
When I was in college, the only reason I went to class was to surf the web :)	[reply]
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