Re: [nlug] Home Content-Filtering Firewalls
Gibson Prichard wrote: > For years I have used IPCop at home as a content-filtering firewall, > ... 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 have been using pfSense since last Summer at our Church. IPCop was recommended, but through some research ended up with pfSense. It uses Squid and SquidGuard as transparent filter. No need to set a proxy. I prefer Dansguardian, but pfSense does not run it. Although you can configure pfSense to route traffic to a Dansguardian box, but that is a little complex. pfSense does seem to be rock solid. It runs on BSD, not Linux. The fire wall is solid, in fact a little to solid at times. -- Jerry Perkins - http://jperkins.us/ I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. Thomas Jefferson -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en.
Re: [nlug] Home Content-Filtering Firewalls
That should work, but it just barely meets the requirements. If you have some beefier hardware it might be worth trying, particularly if this hardware is unstable, though the instability might just need some BIOS tweaking to fix. Chris Sent from my iPhone On Dec 13, 2009, at 3:17 PM, Gibson Prichard wrote: > I've got it on a box with a Sempron 1800 /768mb ram/ 20gb hdd with > only a few modules. The nics are 1 onboard and a cheapie no-name nic. > Should I run it on something beefier? > > Gibson Prichard > > On Dec 13, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Chris McQuistion > wrote: > >> I've got several Untangle servers at work and have been using it for >> years. I love it, but it dies require some resources to run well. I >> use a lot of modules and it takes at least 768 Mab of RAM to run well >> for me. >> >> What kind of hardware are you using? >> >> Chris >> >> On Sunday, December 13, 2009, Steven S. Critchfield >> wrote: >>> - "Gibson Prichard" wrote: 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? >>> >>> >>> For Smoothwall. It incorporates a squid proxy, but it is for traffic >>> reduction and reporting, not control. So if you are willing to log >>> in >>> and find where they hid the conf files, you can do your own >>> filtering, >>> but not via the web page on a stock install. >>> >>> If you want smoothwall to do content filtering, you need to add on a >>> homebrew customization. Likely you will want http:// >>> dansguardian.org/ >>> to go on smoothwall. >>> >>> Here is the instructions for installing into smoothwall. >>> http://community.smoothwall.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=28154 >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Steven Critchfield cri...@basesys.com >>> >>> -- >>> >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "NLUG" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >>> . >>> 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 nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> . >> 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 nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > . > 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 nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en.
Re: [nlug] Home Content-Filtering Firewalls
I've got it on a box with a Sempron 1800 /768mb ram/ 20gb hdd with only a few modules. The nics are 1 onboard and a cheapie no-name nic. Should I run it on something beefier? Gibson Prichard On Dec 13, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Chris McQuistion wrote: > I've got several Untangle servers at work and have been using it for > years. I love it, but it dies require some resources to run well. I > use a lot of modules and it takes at least 768 Mab of RAM to run well > for me. > > What kind of hardware are you using? > > Chris > > On Sunday, December 13, 2009, Steven S. Critchfield > wrote: >> - "Gibson Prichard" wrote: >>> 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? >> >> >> For Smoothwall. It incorporates a squid proxy, but it is for traffic >> reduction and reporting, not control. So if you are willing to log in >> and find where they hid the conf files, you can do your own >> filtering, >> but not via the web page on a stock install. >> >> If you want smoothwall to do content filtering, you need to add on a >> homebrew customization. Likely you will want http://dansguardian.org/ >> to go on smoothwall. >> >> Here is the instructions for installing into smoothwall. >> http://community.smoothwall.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=28154 >> >> >> -- >> Steven Critchfield cri...@basesys.com >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> . >> 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 nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > . > 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 nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en.
Re: [nlug] Home Content-Filtering Firewalls
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Dave Manginelli wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 11:20 -0600, Gibson Prichard wrote: >> 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. >>... > > I don't find the lack of updates to IPCop to be an issue--either it does > what I need it to or it doesn't (as long as the security updates are > still coming, which they seem to be). > > For those who think newer is better, there are plenty of recent updates > to the test versions including 1.9.9 as of only 4 days ago: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipcop/files/ > > Anyway, I'm pleased to hear about the alternatives but for me > personally, if it ain't broke don't fix it. > > > I agree, I am curious why the OP felt he had to move from ipcop -- -- NOT sent from an iphone,blackberry,Nokia, or any handheld. -- I'm a PC(x86 AND ppc) AND I RUN LINUX!!! Linux is like ice cream. It comes in many flavors and everyone has their favorite, but we all get the same smile regardless of which we choose to scoop. - Malcolm Forbes - "By the time we've made it, we've had it." - http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/664.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en.
Re: [nlug] Home Content-Filtering Firewalls
After seeing this thread, I went ahead and put Untangle 7.10 Beta 2 on my firewall and gonna see if I can get it to NOT lock up this time... lol :) Still takes forever to boot up though... any way to get the boot up process to go faster? Pfsense takes like 45 sec to reboot and go live from the BIOS screen.. :) On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Dave Manginelli wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 11:20 -0600, Gibson Prichard wrote: >> 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. >>... > > I don't find the lack of updates to IPCop to be an issue--either it does > what I need it to or it doesn't (as long as the security updates are > still coming, which they seem to be). > > For those who think newer is better, there are plenty of recent updates > to the test versions including 1.9.9 as of only 4 days ago: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipcop/files/ > > Anyway, I'm pleased to hear about the alternatives but for me > personally, if it ain't broke don't fix it. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en.
Re: [nlug] Home Content-Filtering Firewalls
On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 11:20 -0600, Gibson Prichard wrote: > 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. >... I don't find the lack of updates to IPCop to be an issue--either it does what I need it to or it doesn't (as long as the security updates are still coming, which they seem to be). For those who think newer is better, there are plenty of recent updates to the test versions including 1.9.9 as of only 4 days ago: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipcop/files/ Anyway, I'm pleased to hear about the alternatives but for me personally, if it ain't broke don't fix it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en.
Re: [nlug] Home Content-Filtering Firewalls
I've got several Untangle servers at work and have been using it for years. I love it, but it dies require some resources to run well. I use a lot of modules and it takes at least 768 Mab of RAM to run well for me. What kind of hardware are you using? Chris On Sunday, December 13, 2009, Steven S. Critchfield wrote: > - "Gibson Prichard" wrote: >> 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? > > > For Smoothwall. It incorporates a squid proxy, but it is for traffic > reduction and reporting, not control. So if you are willing to log in > and find where they hid the conf files, you can do your own filtering, > but not via the web page on a stock install. > > If you want smoothwall to do content filtering, you need to add on a > homebrew customization. Likely you will want http://dansguardian.org/ > to go on smoothwall. > > Here is the instructions for installing into smoothwall. > http://community.smoothwall.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=28154 > > > -- > Steven Critchfield cri...@basesys.com > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en.
Re: [nlug] Home Content-Filtering Firewalls
- "Gibson Prichard" wrote: > 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? For Smoothwall. It incorporates a squid proxy, but it is for traffic reduction and reporting, not control. So if you are willing to log in and find where they hid the conf files, you can do your own filtering, but not via the web page on a stock install. If you want smoothwall to do content filtering, you need to add on a homebrew customization. Likely you will want http://dansguardian.org/ to go on smoothwall. Here is the instructions for installing into smoothwall. http://community.smoothwall.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=28154 -- Steven Critchfield cri...@basesys.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en.
Re: [nlug] Home Content-Filtering Firewalls
Well, looking at their forums, there are a few things that could be happening, hardware problem is one but I doubt it.. Another is reporting, when it runs the reports, it uses 100% CPU until it gets finished so i'm gonna retry it with the beta and if it locks up again, gonna turn reporting off... If that's not the case, then imma load Gentoo on it and put it under a simulated load to see if it is a hardware problem. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en.
RE: [nlug] Home Content-Filtering Firewalls
Do you have any clue why your goes down? Mine has been rock solid with long uptimes (months). -Original Message- From: nlug-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:nlug-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Faulkner Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 12:43 PM To: nlug-talk@googlegroups.com 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 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: nlug-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:nlug-t...@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Gibson Prichard > Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 11:21 AM > To: nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > 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 nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en.
Re: [nlug] Home Content-Filtering Firewalls
Untangle has a 7.1 Beta in 32 and 64bit 32Bit: http://www.untangle.com/download/untangle_710_beta_2.iso 64Bit: http://www.untangle.com/download/untangle_710_beta_amd64_2.iso On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Chris Faulkner wrote: > 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 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: nlug-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:nlug-t...@googlegroups.com] On >> Behalf Of Gibson Prichard >> Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 11:21 AM >> To: nlug-talk@googlegroups.com >> 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 nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en.
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 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: nlug-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:nlug-t...@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Gibson Prichard > Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 11:21 AM > To: nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > 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 nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en.
RE: [nlug] Home Content-Filtering Firewalls
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: nlug-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:nlug-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Gibson Prichard Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 11:21 AM To: nlug-talk@googlegroups.com 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 nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en.
