Free router distro for my dir-825 (w/Access Control for https!)

[Matt Price]

thans both Jamon and Michael. We've actually had the wireless network
just turned off for the last couple of days, so my emailing has slowed
down! Sorry for the delay.

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Jamon Camisso
<jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 16/11/12 09:16 PM, Matt Price wrote:
>> I'm replacing my old WRT54GL router with a D-link DIR-825.  I run Tomato on
>> the WRT but
>> (1) tomato doesn't sem to support the dir-825, and
>> (2) I've been having trouble lately with access control policies on the
>> tomato -- in particular, it doesn't seem to filter https:// packets; and as
>> most of thee services I want to control access to (Facebook, GMail,
>> Youtube...) run on https, this is a major issue for me.
>>
>> so:
>>
>> -- anyone out there use other router firmware (openwrt, dd-wrt, etc)?  What
>> do you like about it?  easy to use is a BIG plus for me.
>
> I like OpenWRT on my DIR-825. The initial flashing process is stupid
> (Dlink's recovery interface sucks and you have to use it iirc), but once
> the firmware is installed it works nicely.
>
> It is solid, gives a basic gui with https for remote access, and has a
> large repository of available packages to install. I'm currently
> considering moving to a local unbound resolver on the router so that I
> don't have to use my ISP/google's DNS servers.

OK, that sells me, I'll give it a try.
>
>> -- anyone have suggestions for filtering https?  My kids are turning into
>> zombies, and yet they need the Internet to do their homework! It's driving
>> me crazy!  Seriously, my hair is much greyer than it was a month ago, i
>> think facebook is going to kill me.
>
> http://mitmproxy.org/ might be what you're after. Combine that with your
> smoothwall or something and you ought to be able to have pretty granular
> control over what/when/how your kids access the internet with minimal
> supervision.

I took a look at the mitmproxy website and still don't quite
understand how I'd work it.  Traffic on my network goes directly from
the wireless router to the modem -- so I would run mitmproxy on the
router, I guess, under openwrt?  My daughter, for instance, has an
older windows laptop and a newish android phone -- any access
restrictions/firewalling would have to be on the router as I don't
really have access to those machines.

>
> Cheers, Jamon
>
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