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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.
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