----- "Bucky 'Igneous' Wolfe" <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh hey, forgot to mention another awesome thing you may want to add. > I > know this sounds nuts, but you could probably get a reasonable VPS > for > around $10 a month. Set up Ziproxy (a caching, compressing proxy) on > it, to compress images.. then point the squid proxy to the Ziproxy > vps.. _then_ point the in-house network computers to the squid > proxy/router. That will drastically cut down on bandwidth, and they > probably wouldn't notice anything was different. Also, there are > various ad-blocking proxies, that you may want to consider (I believe > Ziproxy actually does it). So they won't be downloading 1.5mb flash > ads, nor will they be downloading 800kb animated gifs for ONLINE > GAMBLING!!!).
Along those same lines, there is a proxy called Privoxy available as a Debian package that does ad blocking and reduces animated gifs to one frame or so. If placed out on a VPS or similar, you could further cut down on downloaded content. As for Smoothwall, it is maintenance free, or so it has been so far. It has the ability to do all kinds of blocking of content. Plus if you set up static IPs for the DHCP to your local machines, you can access squid logs for each machine. I don't think you could get down to a per user though. Being as it is also a full linux install with ssh and such on it, you might be able to do some scripting to monitor users load and throttle it appropriately, just not from the web based console. -- Steven Critchfield [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
