Day of week & time of day restrictions per IP/MAC?

[fleece]

My son stays up too late gaming.  Could I use pfSense to restrict his Internet access during days of week and time of day, say from midnight to 6AM?  I can give him the same IP address through reserved DHCP or something.

[fleece]

Did some research.  One idea is I could use cron and pfctl to alter firewall rules.

[Mr. Jingles]

@fleece:

My son stays up too late gaming.  Could I use pfSense to restrict his Internet access during days of week and time of day, say from midnight to 6AM?  I can give him the same IP address through reserved DHCP or something.

Yes.

In Services/DHCP server you can give your son a static IP.

Then, in Firewall/Schedules you can create a schedule.

Then, in Firewall/Alias, you can create aliases with adresses your son is allowed to go to (the gaming, for example).

Finally, in Firewall rules, you can:

1. Add the alias to allow him to game;
2. Add, in advanced settings (at the bottom) the schedule) which limits the time he can do that.

So after that time, the can still google his home work (sorry, I still can't live with that thought, I'm old fashioned, back in my days we had books  :-[ ) but can't game.

Or, of course, even beyond that: he can't internet at all.

Or, beyond that, with two schedules:

Firewall rule 1: he can game until 4 PM with a schedule.
Firewall rule 2: he can game from 9 PM-10PM with a schedule.