I have done this for several homes. I have succeeded with Pentium-166, 32 Mb
and 10Gb drive space, which is the kind of computer a lot of people have
sitting around gathering dust so I can do the job for very little in parts,
just time. For my own home system, however, I have Pentium-300, 64Mb and 20
Gb drive space, with RedHat 7.1. If you swear you never want anything to do
with X-Windows, you can get away with less, but this system compiles things
reasonably quickly, has enough hard drive space to be a media server (I've
recorded the best of my CD collection onto it, currently at 3.5 Gb), and
handles the Internet traffic with no problem.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ozz
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 11:03 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Newbie help with SquidGuard
Hi Guys.
I am looking to set up a system for parental control of my home network
Internet access.
It looks like Squid/SquidGuard would be perfect for the job.
My network will have up to four users simultaneously accessing the Internet.
My Internet connection is ADSL with 1.5Mbps downstream, 250Kbps upstream.
My questions are:
1. what would be the minimum hardware requirements for such a box?
2. If I were to install RedHat 6.2 on the box prior to setting up
Squid/SquidGuard, what would be the minimum package requirements?
Regards,
Ozz.
