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I have a Buffalo AirStation WZR-HP-G301NH
I am able to access it's settings via 192.168.11.1 I'm connecting wirelessly with toshiba i686 laptop on Linux Mint Debian with service pack 3 and i686 dual core kernel

This is just my home network but I know that there must be a way for large industries to shut their networks down or lock out their network access temporarily based on a time schedule, automatically.

Like mon - fri the network provides access from 8am to 10pm and then automatically shuts down. I want this to affect all the computers accessing this netowork... basically all my families computers so that the internet just automatically shuts down at bedtime.

I am running Linux Mint Debian and so maybe I need to make a cron job or something but does anyone know how big industries implement this and how I can do it privately?

TIA

Joshua Robison
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To answer your question about how larger businesses would implement this - they would use similar functionality to what your router has built-in. For example Microsoft's ISA/TMG server has fine-grained control over web access so that particular users are restricted to certain websites / times of day etc.

In general terms there will be something on the network that all outbound (ie. Internet) traffic will be routed through - be it Linux, Microsoft or whatever - that can perform filtering.

George Hewitt
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