There are so many things you can do. OpenDNS is a great easy way to make a few extra $$$ per month as a value added service, or just a way to up sell your internet service over your competitors. We generally suggest to our customers that there edge routes be setup to use OpenDNS. It gives them an easy way to do some very basic non-impact content filtering; they can easily expand or customize the content themselves. It also blocks / redirects some of the mis-typed web url's - this may help with spyware and virus stuff. Gives them some basic reporting of traffic usage. Ton's of other things, just a cool free product at the basic level. We also sell content filtering as a true service offering. Good content filtering has value and you can make good $$$ selling it. We have placed a filtering device on our network that does the filtering and use a Mikrotik to direct and/or re-direct the traffic flow to the filtering device. The filtering device really does the work of choosing what to filter, when to filter, and how much to filter. This Filtering Device can be either on the customer’s local network, or inside of your network and be shared for several different customers. It just really depends on the amount of traffic they have flowing. We use both types of deployment. Our Filtering Device is SquidGuard - a open source piece of software that is an add in to squid. At most places we do not cache any data, we just use the device as a content filter. We have made a custom front end for the application so the customer can manage the service themselves. We started out using many different product like Sonicwall, Websense, Blue Coat, ect. Each have there benefits and disadvantages. We just felt like between the $$$ and disadvantages we could roll our own and put more $$$ in our pockets going this direction. Hope this helps.
Jim Lund ________________________________________ From: mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com [mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com] On Behalf Of Butch Evans [but...@butchevans.com] Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 8:04 PM To: Mikrotik discussions Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] Content Filtering On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 11:17 -0600, Jon Paul Kelley wrote: > I know that content filtering is possible with Mikrotik, I am just wondering > if any of you guys do it for business customers and if so, what is the > monthly charge for the service. I feel it is an add on to the normal > wireless service. For me, I wouldn't go much further than using something like opendns for their IP. I wouldn't do any type of real "content filtering". If they want that, they can purchase software for each PC OR they can get a SonicWall device that does that. -- ******************************************************************** * Butch Evans * Professional Network Consultation* * http://www.butchevans.com/ * Network Engineering * * http://www.wispa.org/ * Wired or Wireless Networks * * http://blog.butchevans.com/ * ImageStream, Mikrotik and MORE! * ******************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS
