parental time scheduling using cron ?

[nrgiii]

RT-AC88U running 384.19. Wired internet only, both radios are off.

Enabling hardware acceleration (CTF in my case) disturbs the parental time scheduling features.
As an alternative, I was thinking of writing scripts that call iptables to enable / disable my kid's PCs at certain times by mac address.
Something like this to disable the PC at bedtime:

iptables -A INPUT -m mac --mac-source <MAC address> -j DROP

A few questions for those with more router Linux experience than I:

1) Is there any reason not to go down this path? Any "gotchas" to worry about?
2) Is the crontab preserved between router reboots? I would assume so.
3) Do I edit crontab with crontab -e ?

thanks,

nrgiii

 

[itpp20]

RT-AX88U Parental Controls with Time Scheduling problems

Over the holidays I finally took the plunge on upgrading my wireless network. I retired my old RT-N66Rs (also running Merlin) and and replaced them with an RT-AX88U (running Merlin 386.1_beta3 ) working as the main router, and then a RP-AC1900 (running stock 3.0.0.4.385_20630-ged5e4c3)...

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[Strud]

Just tried your script, unfortunatelu conntrack doesn't work on the 386.1 final build, giving "invalid parameter" error.

 

[itpp20]

Maybe @RMerlin can tell whats going on with conntrack and 386.