Do you have any clue why your goes down? Mine has been rock solid with long uptimes (months).
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Faulkner Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 12:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [nlug] Home Content-Filtering Firewalls I love Untangle myself, but it does go down about once a day and rebooting it takes about 10 minutes for it to come back live again. I mainly use IPFire right now with some kernel tcpip tweaks (latency for WoW is horrible without them). It has Content filtering, but I'm not liking the GUI as much as I like Untangle. Smoothwall seemed to work pretty good as well. On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Mark J. Bailey <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been very happy with Untangle! http://www.untangle.com/ > > Based on Ubuntu the free modules do a fairly decent job. I used the ISO > version and loaded up an older P4 with 1gb ram and 80gb harddisk and 2 > nics and set it up in "transparent bridge" mode (as I use pfsense for my > home router). It does quite well. There is a 7.1beta that is reported to > be working well for everyone. It can also do the router function, I just > have a lot setup in pfsense that I wanted to keep it in the equation. In > bridge mode, you insert Untangle inline between the LAN and the router. > Has a nice web interface and is by far the easiest thing I have ever tried > that appears to do what I was looking for. You can gain ssh shell access > but most everything will get reset by the Untangle "engine". > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Gibson Prichard > Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 11:21 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [nlug] Home Content-Filtering Firewalls > > For years I have used IPCop at home as a content-filtering firewall, > protecting my kids from stuff they shouldn't see online. I noticed > that IPCop seems to be stuck in a rather old release, with no real > enhancements being done that I can see. So, I thought I would try > another Linux firewall with a web GUI front end (to help my wife tune > the filters when needed). I downloaded Untangle and am very > disappointed - the internet connection seems to go down every 5 > minutes with Untangle and I have to restart the content filter to > restore it. Maybe its the box I'm using, but it seems very slow on the > GUI part, too. > I was wondering what others use and what your recommendations are for > filtration of kids content at the firewall level. I'm shying away from > software on the client, since we have things like iPod touches and > iPhones that don't have ready content filters available. I have > Smoothwall, but haven't tried it yet. Any ideas? > > Gibson > > -- > > 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. > > > -- > > 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. > > > -- 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. -- 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.
