If you go to dansguardian.org, they have links to their commercial version. These folks are also the folks that produce the smoothwall firewall system and they have a setup called schoolguard as well as preconfigured appliances.
--Curtis Israel Lopez-LISTS wrote: > I have to agree. It seem that these hardware boxes that try to do 'all > in one' services (Routing, NAT, Firewall, AV, Content-Filtering, > Spam)... seem to fall on their face. I know of a consultant buddy of > mine who implemented it, and hated every second of it. He is still > cursing at it when it fails (AD Connector stops working requiring manual > resets of the box, etc,). > > -IL > > os10ru...@gmail.com wrote: > >> I had some very bad experiences with SonicWall and their service/ >> support. For one thing their basic content filter package was useless >> because it did not block proxy sites. They expected us to pay hundreds >> more a year for their premium filter package just to get the >> functionality of their basic package to work. Discussions with >> customer service/tech support fell on deaf ears. There were heated >> discussions on the forum (everyone was fed up with SonicWall) but >> SonicWall wouldn't budge. We got a little response from them when I >> suggested to the forum that perhaps this topic would be a good start >> for a class action lawsuit. I was using one of their lowest end >> products at the time so maybe they give better support for their >> higher end products. However I would never use SonicWall again. >> There's many other competitors out there. There's a few products which >> I don't recall the name of but they're specifically geared to >> scholastic/library settings. >> >> For our filtering needs we switched to Untangle. Another we used and >> liked was Astaro. >> >> Greg >> >> On Aug 13, 2009, at 7:31 AM, Jason Hensley wrote: >> >> >> >>> Sonicwall has some outstanding products as far as an all-in-one >>> appliance >>> for firewall, content filtering, spam, virus, etc etc. I have one >>> in place >>> for a school and our local library. Make sure you get one with enough >>> horse-power. A small school may work fine with a TZ-200 or TZ-190, >>> but you >>> get very large, and you will quickly end up needing more than that. >>> >>> Be glad to quote you out one if you needed. >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] >>> On >>> Behalf Of Scott Carullo >>> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 10:35 PM >>> To: wireless@wispa.org >>> Subject: [WISPA] Content Filter Suggestion for School >>> >>> >>> I need a web content filter for K-12 school. Paid Subscription ok. >>> >>> Please let me know what good products there are for this >>> requirement. Need >>> asap. Thanks... >>> >>> Scott Carullo >>> Brevard Wireless >>> 321-205-1100 x102 >>> >>> >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> ---- >>> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >>> http://signup.wispa.org/ >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> ---- >>> >>> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >>> >>> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >>> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >>> >>> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >>> >>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >>> http://signup.wispa.org/ >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >>> >>> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >>> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >>> >>> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >>> >>> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> >> > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
