Internet access control

[kodiekillian]

I have a DSL router at home that I use for a home network. I have also plugged a wireless access point into the router so the laptop can access the internet as well. My son wants to buy a wireless LAN card to access our other home computers from his room. Is there an easy way to give him access to the other home computers but not the internet? Can I somehow block his address from going out? If so, is there a way to give him access when I want to?

Thanks for any help

 

[jrbarnett]

Don't know if your router's DHCP server allows this, but you could set a reservation for his PC's NIC based on the MAC address and not set the default gateway. This way, packets from his PC will not go outside the router, but he should have no problems accessing other computers on the LAN.
You will of course need to lock down the wireless access point if you haven't done already to only allow authorised MAC addresses.

John