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by: zioup2 June 7, 2012 9:23 AM PDT

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What is the Best WiFi router with URL Whitelisting ?

by zioup2 - 6/7/12 9:23 AM

Hello,

I am looking for the best router wireless Access Points that allows me to create a white list with Internet addresses and not IP addresses. I found the Dlink DIR-615... but is it the best for this?
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I had a 615 and it failed your spec.

by R. Proffitt Moderator - 6/7/12 10:59 AM

In Reply to: What is the Best WiFi router with URL Whitelisting ? by zioup2

I could put in IP addresses as well as URLs so it fails your specification,.

Why must the router exclude the ability to put in the IP address? Just curious.
Bob


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he!he!

by zioup2 - 6/7/12 1:42 PM

In Reply to: I had a 615 and it failed your spec. by R. Proffitt Moderator

Dear Bob,

Why? it's because everybody give me a good way, but it's only working with IP and I want to make it with URL happy without to configuring iptable...
Well I want to know if this kind of wireless router exists.
Thank you


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ip/url

by bill012 - 6/7/12 2:34 PM

In Reply to: he!he! by zioup2

Depends what you mean URL. The sitename-ip resolution will be made by the PC before the request is sent thought the router so it will never see the actual a packet with the DNS name of the site they will always only have IP.

Some of the routers that claim to block URl really just block the DNS name. They will have to do a DNS lookup to actually block anything.

Now if what you want is a router that can say
block "www.site1.com/photos" but
allow "www.site1.com/text"
you need one that read the content of the HTTP request. This takes a lot of cpu power to do and really I only know of commercial ones that do this... but there are new routers every day so maybe someone has seen one. You might try the DD-WRT firmware load on a router. It has the ability to filter keywords so it may work.


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Ok, thank you

by zioup2 - 6/7/12 11:30 PM

In Reply to: ip/url by bill012

Thank you but with DD-WRT, Tomato, OpenWRT, it's not possible without extensive work on the configuration.
No, the router has to say in whitelist
allow "www.site1.com/texts"
allow "www.site1.com/texta"
allow "www.site1.com/texti"
allow "www.site1.com/texto"
allow "www.site1.com/textu"
allow "www.site1.com/tex"

and block all other URL in the world happy You says "but there are new routers every day so maybe someone has seen one" yes it is that's why I ask to all wireless forum I can find. Somebody speaks me about Mikrotik... I have to try.
Thank you.


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I think you misunderstand and I was not clear enough.

by R. Proffitt Moderator - 6/7/12 2:36 PM

In Reply to: he!he! by zioup2

Since the router allowed both, isn't that good enough?

Or is there a reason you want it to never allow the IP entry?
Bob


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no I understand...

by zioup2 - 6/7/12 11:20 PM

In Reply to: I think you misunderstand and I was not clear enough. by R. Proffitt Moderator

It's because I'm not very good with admin, iptable.... that's why at first I want URL adress... both is ok.
Thank you
Somebody tell me that :RB951-2n of mikrotik.... Do you know?


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how much url adresses

by zioup2 - 6/7/12 11:35 PM

In Reply to: I had a 615 and it failed your spec. by R. Proffitt Moderator

How much URLS can you enter in the white list of the 615?
For example if I enter "www.site1.com" is it valided for all pages of this address? or should I enter in any pages...
www.site1.com/tex1
www.site1.com/tex2
www.site1.com/tex3
thank you


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Sorry but this is not a web URL issue.

by R. Proffitt Moderator - 6/8/12 7:10 PM

In Reply to: What is the Best WiFi router with URL Whitelisting ? by zioup2

If you recall your IP network classes the web browser does not actually look at a site by name. It does a DNS lookup then heads to that IP address.

Here's a refresher course -> http://www.howstuffworks.com/dns.htm

So the bad news is that no router does what you ask.
Bob


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