On 8/28/07, Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What a coincidence! This is the exact system I setup for my relatives. > Basically I have a colinux instance with dansguardian and squid, and > then I have firewall rules on the wireless access point that force all > web traffic from anywhere on the LAN through the colinux box. Works > awesome, except that the machine hosting colinux has to always be > running or the computers in the LAN have no web access.
The setup I had was for each individual machine. I can't remember exactly how I did it anymore, but it I think I used either bridging or connection sharing in XP. (I'm working on recreating it so that I can document it like I should've the first time.) This way no other machines needed to be on and I didn't need a certain wireless router that I could setup rules as you did. Having everything self contained in one appliance would be even better > though. Alas even with 32 MB of RAM and 8 MB flash, my WRT54GSv1 cannot > handle it at all. I agree that a nice simple appliance would be better. The reason I developed the solution I did was that it was free. I developed it for my dad, who is a bishop of a student ward. He wanted to be able to give something to the members of his ward that they could use to filter web traffic. Most students don't have too much money floating around so I opted for that route. Alas, I never got it into a form that he could use since I didn't have enough time to take it further. -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
