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              “He who controls the router, controls the network.”
                                        
The Kids were noisy. Well, they're kids, they're inherently noisy.

But they supposed to be sleeping.

On a hunch, I logged into the firewall system (an old 486 running Linux) and
ran monnet, a network monitor I wrote a few years ago as an educational
exercise and sure enough, there was quite a bit of traffic from The Kids'
computer upstairs.

Sure enough, they were playing Rune Scape [1].

Buy why yell when instead, I can have a bit of fun … 

> route add 10.0.1.161 reject
> 

It suddenly got very quiet upstairs … 

Heh heh heh.

[1] http://www.runescape.com/

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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