[Solved] Package to monitor web traffic

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hi,

I am interested to install an OpenWrt package to monitor web traffic as a parental control utility. The main functionality is filter by IP/MAC and by type of traffic (browser traffic in particular). What could be the best suggestion for this purpose? Ideally, not too involved technically and with GUI.

Thanks!

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What kind of browser traffic would you like to filter?

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I'd like to filter out the regular browsing traffic coming from a particular LAN device. The idea is that this package serves as a sort of parental control monitor.

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fine, but the access should be restricted based on what ?
sites ? IPs ? time online ? bw usage ? data usage ?

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For access restriction (if any) - based on whitelist/blacklist of sites. But the primary thing is to be able to understand/monitor the browsing history (doesn't have to be real-time).

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The Internet Logs on pcWRT seem to be close to what I was thinking about:

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Perhaps, a proxy server is the right tool for the monitoring/blacklisting of web traffic? :thinking: One of the names mentioned here - Privoxy, Squid or Tinyproxy...

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To close the topic: Tinyproxy with whitelist on OpenWrt + some tweaks on the Windows PC client side (forcing the proxy use (and preventing its change) + whitelisting only OpenWrt powered wireless network).

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