--- Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm searching for a good system (squid + add on) for my firewall which > will do a reasonable job knocking out obvious problem sites for my kids > as they use the Web. So far I've seen mentions of squidguard and > dansguardian, but don't know of others to consider, if there are any.
Squid is excellent as a caching proxy, and for *content* filtering, I cannot recommend DansGuardian enough. It really is very well written, clean ACL implementations, etc. > My current (Shorewall based) firewall is my original 486/66 (48 Mb ram) > which also works well as our gateway. I don't know what this will do > to it, though. Anybody have thoughts about this part? You can tell squid to limit how much RAM it uses for caching in memory, the /etc/squid.conf file is very conveniently commented. I have written articles on setting up squid, dansguardian [1,2]. -- Thomas Adam [1] http://linuxgazette.net/issue81/adam.html#dansg [2] http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue78/adam.html ===== "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net "<shrug> We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get better. The experience will probably kill you. :)" -- Benjamin A. Okopnik (Linux Gazette Technical Editor) ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - sooooo many all-new ways to express yourself http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
