Chris Rowson wrote: >> I have become (slightly ambitiously) the volunteer system admin for a >> small local charity serving a small number of vulnerable users. >> I expect to commission and admin 5 PCs each with edubuntu 7.04 (a few >> are dual boot with windows). There will be a modem router and LAN >> including a switch. >> >> I believe that something like dans guardian is probably going to be >> important, and I can see a number of how to's on the forums. >> I would prefer not to use scripts, and it seems that apps are in repos >> ok. However, my experience with cacheing, proxies, and ip tables (and >> the concepts) is sparse, and I wondered if anyone here has experience >> or comments which might help me speed up? >> tia >> -- >> alan cocks >> Kubuntu user#10391 >> > > Hi Alan, > > I'm running dansguardian content filtering at the moment on a network > serving 400 and odd machines. I'm happy to help you out if you get > stuck. > > Actually just chucking it in and getting it going isn't too hard to be > honest. Just grab danguardian and squid and configure using the > supplied configuration files. > > Open /etc/dansguardian/dansguardian.conf > > Find the line that says "UNCONFIGURED" > Comment it out by appending a "#" to the beginning of the line. > > If memory serves me correctly, squid arrives ready to go, but the > config file is over at /etc/squid/squid.conf > > Squid should be listening on port 3128 and dansguardian on 8080 - > point your browser at yourproxy:3128 for unfiltered and yourproxy:8080 > for filtered internet access. > > Other things you might want to look at are > > a) configuring the actual content filtering level > b) stopping squid from creating a log file (it doesn't need to, > because dansguardian does) > c) setting squid up to cache commonly accessed content to reduce bandwidth. > > Other stuff might come to me later. If you have any particular > questions, I'll have a gander at the installation at work
Thanks Chris (and Rob). I am beginning to get the idea I think. Am I correct in believing that the Filtering Machine is just 'somewhere' on the LAN as usual, and that the users machines are then configured to point to it, so LAN cabling is not affected? Also, is the arrangement fragile in some way - say, in that if for some reason the filtering machine is not running first, then things get really screwed up? Or does it all later settle down automatically when the filtering machine is later turned on? -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
