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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => Routers / COVR => DIR-615 => Topic started by: XYooper on January 25, 2012, 05:46:24 PM
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Hi, trying to set up a simple schedule for keeping the kids from staying up all night. I'd had this working on a Linksys WRT54G till it bit the dust. I just want it to block internet after midnight.
My problem is that the schedule is triggering the block unpredictably.
I created a schedule from 00:01 to 05:00, for all weekdays. I then set up an Access Control rule that blocks all access for the MAC address using that schedule. Once I save it, internet is blocked, even though the router time is not in the schedule window.
I noticed choosing only today (today is Wednesday, it was about 6pm), the block didn't go on. I then selected just Thursday, and the block went on!
Is the schedule using GMT? I setup a time server connection, made sure I had the right Time Zone, but it still behaved the same.
This is a new DIR-615, Hardware A2, Firmware 1.10NA. No updates available on the web site. Anyone else seen this? Any ideas? Any help would be welcome.
Thanks,
Steve
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Is the time on the router set correctly?
Use an NTP server of time.nist.gov.
To set up scheduling:
1. Reserve device IP addresses ON the router under Setup/Networking.
2. Set up a schedule under Tools/Schedule on the routers web page. Customize your dates and times here.
3. Use Access Control under Advanced to apply the customized schedule to a policy and to the PC(s) desired to be controlled.
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Thanks for your prompt response.
The router was telling me the time and time zone was correct, and I had put in time.nist.gov as an NTP server. One thing I had not done was reboot the router, forgetting my rule that 60% of all problems are solved by shutting down and restarting.
When it came back up, the date and time were in 1969!
I changed the NTP Server to pool.ntp.org, and the time did reset correctly. Experimenting with the schedule and access rules worked correctly as well, using it on my MAC address. I didn't reserve an IP for the system, just entered the MAC, but I'll keep it in mind if things change.
Proof of solving it will come this weekend, I've set up a rule blocking the kids MAC address at midnight.
Thanks again,
Steve
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So using time.nist.gov didn't work after resetting the router?
Let us know how it works out with the scheduling.
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I had to set the time manually to get access control to work. When I used the web service I was about 6 hours off. When I set the time manually all began to work as expected.
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You could set up the NTP time server option too, this should keep the time correct.
I had to set the time manually to get access control to work. When I used the web service I was about 6 hours off. When I set the time manually all began to work as expected.