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When you list the sites for Calendar#2, you should list the sites one per line, like this:

edu
org
google.com
schoology.com

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That’s a very valid question. You’ll lose all settings (including parental control) if the router is reset. Usually it does not pose a threat, either because children do not know about it, or parents warn children that there are consequences if they try to circumvent by resetting the router. Some parents protect against it by physically securing access to the router (e.g., with a lock). With that said, we are actually working on a solution to this problem. We’ll post an update here once this is available.

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@tcannon777 Can you run “ipconfig /all” from a command line window and send the output to [email protected]?

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If your workstation is used by you alone, then you can create a new profile, disable parental control for that profile, and add your workstation to the new profile.

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@RichardGV You guessed it. More hardware support is coming, hopefully before the holidays.

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Here’s what you can do:

1. Connect the pcWRT router by Ethernet cable to a PC.
2. Log in the router console, disable parental control and Save.
3. Go to the Network page, change the LAN IP address to one in your Linksys LAN range. I.e., if your Linksys has 192.168.1.1, assign 192.168.1.10 to the pcWRT LAN. The router will reboot after you Save.
4. SSH to the pcWRT router (IP address 192.168.1.10 if using above IP address). Login with root and your router password. You can use putty if you don’t have a preferred SSH client.
5. In shell, enter ‘/etc/init.d/dnsmasq stop;/etc/init.d/dnsmasq disable’ (without quotes). Then exit shell.

When you connect the pcWRT to the Linksys, connect a LAN port on the pcWRT to a LAN port on the Linksys. Devices connecting to the pcWRT via DHCP will then get IP addresses from the Linksys.

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Understood. The router works with OpenWrt, but there’s no known DD-WRT firmware that works. Are you comfortable with command line interface?

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There’s no way to disable DHCP on this router, since it’s required for the parental control functions. What’s your network configuration and what are you trying to achieve?

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No. Currently the router does not log visited sites. The interim solution is to use the reporting tools provided by OpenDNS Home. Granted that OpenDNS reports activities from your home network, but if you configure the router to use OpenDNS for kid’s devices only, then all activities reported by OpenDNS are from kid’s devices.

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@abe Sorry about that. Please send email to [email protected]. We’ll take care of it.

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You’ll need to set up port forwarding.

Assume that the pcWRT router WAN side IP address is 192.168.101.100. And the printer IP address is: 192.168.102.200, printer port is 9100.

If you haven’t done it already, give the printer a name on the pcWRT router, for example, click the printer hostname on the Status page and name it printer.lan. The hostname should display in blue after you saved a name for the printer.

Next, go to the Network Settings page. In the Port Forwards section, click Add. Enter these values in the popup:
1. Name: Printer port forward (or anything meaningful)
2. Protocol: tcp
3. External Port: 9100
4. Internal Address: pick the printer (192.168.102.200)
5. Internal Port: 9100

Click OK, then Save.

On your PC, configure the printer to use the pcWRT router IP address (192.168.101.100) and port 9100.

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BTW, if you had YouTube restricted mode turned on, it becomes “moderate restricted mode” after the update.

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@gangwang We added YouTube moderate restricted mode to update v1.21.5. Please update and check it out. And thanks for the suggestion!

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@RichardGV On what device is he running the VPN client?

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@RichardGV Thanks for the suggestion! We are adding more testing scenarios to our current test suite, and hopefully situations like this can be eliminated in the future. We are also developing a function so that you can roll back to a previous version.

For now, please update to v1.21.5 and see if the problem is fixed. Thanks!

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