content filter

[Tom Wolfe]

.... and of course IPCop with addons as a fully free alternative to 
Endian (Endian is derived from IPCop and is kind of a turn-key solution):

http://ipcop.org
http://www.ipcopaddons.org/

Regards,
Tom Wolfe

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On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Tom Wolfe wrote:

> Squidguard is good but a little limited in terms of function.
>
> For more function there is Dans Guardian, natuerlich
>
> For a complete firewall/filter solution on a separate machine, there is
> Endian Community Edition (free, a tiny bit tricky to set up if you've
> never set up anything like this before, but good) http://endian.it. It has
> integrated, albeit somewhat limited, content filtering as well as
> anti-virus filtering. For a little more punch to your content filtering,
> you need to manually download a blacklist (see
> http://www.squidguard.org/blacklists.html), upload it to /root with scp,
> unpack it into /etc/dansguardian/blacklists ... be warned that the first
> time you activate the content filtering it will take a long time - as in
> an hour on a fairly quick machine - to initialize. You'll also need a lot
> of RAM, like 1 GB or more, to run at all. Automatic blacklist updates are
> only available on Endian's very expensive commercial products.
>
> Regards,
> Tom Wolfe
>
>
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Uwe Geercken wrote:
>
>>
>> hello,
>>
>> thank you for all your help.
>>
>> ... but I have a final question for today ;-)
>>
>> what can you easily use and administer in terms of a content filter
>> for web pages? any recommendation?
>>
>> I do not have so high security issues with my 10 and 11 years old kids
>> and no one else will be able to use the system. but I do want to start
>> using one.
>>
>> rgds,
>>
>> uwe
>>
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