I am a computer tech at a school district, and we want to enable
iChat for the students to use within our local network, but we do
not want them to use any outside chat protocols. The problem with
that is that the teachers and tech staff use AIM to communicate, so
we can't block those services. Is there anyway to limit the
students to just using Bonjour or Jabber chatting without blocking
network traffic?
If I understand you okay, you want people inside the school to be
able to chat with other people in the school, but not with people
outside the school.
If that's the case, then all you need to do is block the AIM/Jabber/
IM protocols at the border between the school and the rest of the
internet. Your network technicians can do that for you by adjusting
the settings on your school's firewall/switch boundary.
Simon
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Simon Slavin Fylde Building Room C11
Computing Development Officer 01524 65201 x 93569
Psychology Department
University of Lancaster
