Thanks all for input received so far. I'm not so picky on the "thin-ness" of my LEAF router box. I still have some space left on my 80meg flash disk. At home it is becoming my catch-all router/firewall so adding a certain amount of extra abilities flies for me on this one.
However, I have looked around the net and noticed that SNORT may be up to the task (although not necessarily it's conventional use). Is there anyone that has put SNORT to use on LEAF as a "nanny filter"??????? John -----Original Message----- From: Todd Pearsall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 9:33 AM To: 'John Mullan'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Leaf-user] Junk Busting??? I use squid and squidguard on a separate machine. Squidguard is nice because it updates nightly with a new "bad" list. I'm pretty sure you can run squid on your Dachstein box, but you'll need a HD to store the cached pages and logs and probably more memory (32MB-64MB?). With squid in place you can probably add squidguard. There are also rules you can add so the web proxy is transparent, meaning the users PC just uses the Dachstein box as the gateway and the rules pump anything destined for port 80 thru squid. I put this in the category of "can be done" if your pretty familiar with Dachstein, Linux and firewalls, but I doubt you'll find a drop in package. If you can scrape up another PC then this should be a piece of cake since squid is a standard package in RedHat and all you'd need to do it is to add squidguard (pretty easy). If you get it to work on Dachstein please write it up. I would like to have squid and squidguard running on the firewall, but I love having no HD in the firewall, so I'm sticking with my current solution. I run e-smith as a server and Dachstein as firewall. If you used e-smith as both you just add squidguard and be done. Personally I like the firewall as skinny as possible and separate from the server. Enough rambling, good luck. - Todd > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > John Mullan > Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 10:11 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Leaf-user] Junk Busting??? > > > I am now in need of blocking certain web content from my 8-year-old > grandson. > > Since my only gateway to the internet is through the > Dachstein box, I am > wondering what (if anything) can be run on the box to block > various web > content. > > So is there anything?? I'm kinda hoping NOT to add in another > computer....... > > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > John Mullan http://mullan.dns2go.com/ > > Personal: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Business: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leaf-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
