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 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 > >> --------------------------------------------------- > >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > 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) > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss