Basically the management at the particular client in question has asked if I can pull usage reports for a handful of users and wanted to get a rough idea how much personal browsing is taking place on company machines. I'm certainly not trying to stick my neck out into a potentially bad situation, merely trying to provide an intelligent response to someone else's inquiry. The second bit I was looking to see is a breakdown of where the traffic is coming from, such as HTTP, P2P, etc, and what IP ranges are the primary culprits as they have several VLANS. Cheers.
James -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Bagnall Sent: November-20-12 8:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [pfSense] Building Reports and Content Filters On 20/11/12 2:53 pm, James Caldwell wrote: > Trying to figure out a good solution for monitoring users and building > reports to try and enforce acceptable use policies and procedures but I would > really like to avoid using any solution other than pfSense. Having asked > around and checked the forums I've seen a handful of people that will use > Untangle behind a perimeter pfSense machine but this is certainly not an > ideal way to go, especially in more complex network environments. I've also > recently seen lots of advertisements from vendors such as SonicWALL and > WatchGuard about 'Next Generation Firewalls' and their ability to better > manage your network traffic. I'd hate to think that they have anything the > open source community has not already had for some time :). Regardless, any > insight would be really appreciated. Thanks guys! You should probably be a little more specific about precisely what sort of "acceptable use policies and procedures" you are trying to enforce. I'd also caution against looking for a technical solution to a social or HR percieved 'problem'. It nearly always seems to end in tears, recriminations, and other unpleasantness :-) Kind regards, Chris -- This email is made from 100% recycled electrons _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
