Easy to use firewall and invisible proxy?

[George Toft]

Beauty of SW (and others) is all the engineering is already complete -
install and go.

George


On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 11:01 -0700, Ed wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:20 AM, George Toft <george at georgetoft.com> wrote:
> > 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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> 
> Try OpenBSD -->
> http://openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#Bridge
> 1) get an old PC with a pair of NIC (~500 Mhz)
> 2) set up a bridge (transparent) between both NIC and (the PC doesn't
> need to have it's own IP addresses)
> 3) filter traffic with PF
> 
> if you need more control look at setting up Squid in tansparent proxy
> mode on a similarly invisible bridge -->
> http://www.benzedrine.cx/transquid.html
> (the PC does need to have it's own IP addresses)
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