Re: [OT] squidguard, dansguardian, other?? on a 486?
--- Kenward Vaughan <kay_jay@earthlink.net> wrote:
> I'm searching for a good system (squid + add on) for my firewall which
> will do a reasonable job knocking out obvious problem sites for my kids
> as they use the Web. So far I've seen mentions of squidguard and
> dansguardian, but don't know of others to consider, if there are any.
Squid is excellent as a caching proxy, and for *content* filtering, I
cannot recommend DansGuardian enough. It really is very well written,
clean ACL implementations, etc.
> My current (Shorewall based) firewall is my original 486/66 (48 Mb ram)
> which also works well as our gateway. I don't know what this will do
> to it, though. Anybody have thoughts about this part?
You can tell squid to limit how much RAM it uses for caching in memory,
the /etc/squid.conf file is very conveniently commented. I have written
articles on setting up squid, dansguardian [1,2].
-- Thomas Adam
[1] http://linuxgazette.net/issue81/adam.html#dansg
[2] http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue78/adam.html
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