Easy to use firewall and invisible proxy?

[George Toft]

I use Smoothwall (which IPCop is a fork of, IIRC).  Add in the
DansGuardian mod, and you have a real slickety solution.

I mastered the disk onto a CompactFlash card and use it in place of a
hard drive.  As previously posted here (years ago by someone else), it
will wear out - I finally wore one out after 2 years of use.  I just
reimaged a new CF, replaced it and was back online.  

What I really like about SW is the built-in VPN and the web interface -
very easy to use.

George



On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 22:48 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
> Recomendations sought: Easy to use firewall and invisible proxy.
> 
> I have friends and family that want a firewall and invisible proxy
> with content filtering as a gateway on their Internet connection.  I
> know some of the usual suspects like IPCop[1] with Copfilter[2].
> Dan's Guardian[3] is also nice for content filtering but does not
> always behave well with Copfilter.
> 
> So, rather than continue my late night search, I thought I'd ask here
> about possible solutions.  There must be some out there already, such
> as those used in schools and the like.  Does anyone have some
> recommendations?
> 
> Alan
> 
> [1]http://www.ipcop.org
> [2]http://www.copfilter.org
> [3]http://dansguardian.org
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