I'm attempting to convince one of our customers to replace portions of their current BorderManager infrastructure with open source software (specifically, squid and squidGuard). Right now we have the following configuration: 2 BorderManager servers at the "core" of the network that are CERN parents to each of the BorderManager servers at the remote sites. As this is a school, our ISP does a good deal of the CIPA filtering, and we also do some site filtering for those "annoying" little sites like Gator, etc.
Here's the issue, as it were: if we replace the two "core" BM servers with squid/squidGuard, for these "in house" blocks we would have to update the URL database in two locations, once in NDS and once in the blacklist file in SG. While a product exists to bridge this gap (LinkWall from Connectel (?) ) the school system is broke and won't put out the $1500 to implement an OSS solution. My question is this: Short of going whole-hog to the OSS solution (which I'm lobbying for constantly, but get shot down every time) is there a way to inexpensively bridge the gap between SG blacklist files and the BorderManager access rules in NDS? I only ask this here in case someone else has attempted this in the past. Thans in advance for any help you can give. --Greg Gregory B. Dickinson, CNE CCNA Systems Engineer Logista Solutions (205) 231-5602 MRTG: Oscar Wilde was right
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