On Monday 26 June 2006 14:12, Patrick Murphy wrote: > One (remote?) possibility would be to look into becoming our own ISP, > or a "virtual" ISP, but I know little about it. i just googled for "Hutterite".. never heard of it before this.. yes, you could set up your own community gateway and set up your own filtering rules on the gateway.. however, this would require some knowledge in networking and firewall configuration.. it's relatively inexpensive as you can just use any old computer as a gateway.. install a special firewall linux distribution like http://www.smoothwall.org/.. configure it to block everything except approved sites.. then, you'd just need to make sure that all community traffic flows through this gateway.. cheers.. with metta, shawn tan. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist