On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Jake Moe <jakesaddr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A bit off topic, but this group seems to know a lot about this sort of > subject. > > I've caught the 11 year old at home browsing sites he really shouldn't > be. I'd like to implement some sort of filter so that he can only > access "approved" sites, but myself and my o/h can browse whatever we > want. What is the best way to implement this? A firewall? Some sort > of web proxy? Something else? I've got a few Gentoo computers, one > that tri-boots between Windows XP (for work), Windows 7 (for games) and > Gentoo (for everything else), and one Windows laptop (my o/h won't give > it up) connecting to one wireless AP/router. > > I'm thinking maybe a single firewall would be the way to go, but I > suppose it'd have to something that we could "log" into to let it know > who's who; I've never heard of a firewall that does that. Otherwise, > maybe a software firewall on each PC, but it'd be a bit cumbersome > across all the PCs, unless it had some sort of central management server. > > A web search seems to show a Squid proxy may be the way to go, as well. > but I'm not familiar enough with that to know if it'll really do what I > want. > > Any help/suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. > > Jake Moe > > > Hi Jake, This is something I wish there was more information about free/open solutions available to assist parents in this exact situation. So, dansguardian [1] is a good place to start, and here [2] is a nice article on linux.com that provides an actual solution. I think it would be really helpful if you could document what you learn as you traverse this situation, so that other may benefit as well. Perhaps a gentoo forum topic in addition to this ML might be appropriate. Also, I have seen around some talk about running a setup like this on a WRT router running DD-WRT and another system called packetprotector running openwrt [3] [1] http://dansguardian.org/ [2] http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/113733 [3] http://packetprotector.org/ Cheers and good luck, Matt -- Matthew W. Summers quantumsummers | trustee, gentoo foundation
