Not exactly an "appliance", but it might fit the bill: Check out http://www.clarkconnect.com.
This Linux distro is being used by our school with great success. It has all the features you're asking for, and price for the content filtering updates is extremely reasonable. I put this on a 8 core Xeon with plenty of ram and some fast harddrives, and it's providing excellent web browsing performance for our 1000 computer LAN. Others to check out: www.astaro.com - They do the linux distro thing too, but also have actual "appliances". www.barracudanetworks.com - We love Barracuda's spam firewall, and they have a web filter as well. Worth looking into. www.sonicwall.com - Before our school was using ClarkConnect, we were using a sonicwall for our firewall and filter. I know there are some people on this list who love these products, and we liked ours too... but the clarkconnect solution saved us money on yearly support agreements, and sonicwall's customer service was lacking. (Hopefully things have changed for the better in that department.) www.smoothwall.net - I've used their open source firewall before (www.smoothwall.org), and this is a well built product. The cooperate version has the features you need, and they even have an appliance. www.stbernard.com/iprism - A more expensive content filter, but also billed as one of the best... I haven't actually seen one of these in action, but when I ask about content filters, this appliance keeps coming up to the top of the radar. www.watchguard.com - I have vendors pushing me to try this companies Firebox line, looked like a decent solution at the time. Hope the info helps. --Matt Ross _____ From: Osama Salah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:26:13 -0800 Subject: Looking for appliance: proxy, web filter, antivirus Hi all, we've been running an ISA server with Websense and AVAST AV for quite some time now for a total of 1000 users. Websense is becoming rather expensive (per user pricing) and I'm not too happy of the malware protection offered by AVAST. And I don't really care if the websense database is the best in the world. A half way decent web filter is more than we need. We are looking for a replacement, possibly an appliance that doesn't cost a fortune. I had a look at BlueCoat but that looks like it will be expensive. Fortinet and Bloxx seems to be fitting the requirements. What else is outthere? rgds Osama S. _____ Disclaimer:This communication contains information that is confidential and may also be legally privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient,disclosure, copying, distribution or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this communication or the information in it is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error please notify the sender by return email, delete it from your system and destroy any copies. _____ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
