So my 12 year old son is starting to get a little too comfortable with his new freedom of a school computer and a desk in his room. I do not believe he is doing anything he shouldnt be doing but being in the IT field, I am just cautious when he disapears into his room. Plus my wife and I want to make sure he is actually studying when he says he is. I am curious to see if anyone has any suggestions to see if there is a product we can put on our home network to see where he is going. Its a school computer so I don’t have any way to install anything on it. We have an ASUS router powering the network.
Check out Firewalla.
It’s a combination security appliance -think a router with IDS, IPS and firewall capabilities.
I have it and love it. After coming home from working on IT all day at my company, I just want my home network to work. Firewalla does that, but with all the extra goodies that an IT guy could want.
It also has a “monitor only” mirror mode if you really want to keep that Asus router.