[K12OSN] internet content filtering
Jim Hays
haysja at sages.us
Tue Jul 27 14:29:20 UTC 2004
Our IPCop/DansGuardian machine for our main campus is a 1 Ghz Pentium
with 512 MB RAM and an 80 GB HD (overkill). I got it new last year for
about $350. Put IP Cop on it, installed DG and we were filtering away
for <$500 with new equipment.
This serves two schools and about 350 workstations and does the job
well. It is as much (or more) machine that what you get when buying a
commercial appliace for $3000-5000.
IPCop 1.4 does support SCSI, but we could not find an easy install of DG
for 1.4. I do know of someone who does have DG ruinning on IPCop 14.
with SCSI drives.
The cache is not a problem here and I do have it turned on.
Shawn Powers wrote:
> Jim Kronebusch wrote:
>
>> I second this. All you need is a box (anything over a 133mhz with 32mb
>> ram should rock) with 2 or 3 NIC's, depending on if you want a DMZ.
>
>
> What about CPU needs of DG? Also, since ipcop doesn't support SCSI,
> does the cache beat this machine up? (or can you set DG not to cache?)
>
> My problem is that I have a quad xeon (only 550mhz cpus) server with
> SCSI drives that I plan to install squid on -- but if I could get it
> all into one gateway/filter box, it'd make me happier. :)
>
> Anyone have any real-world "gut feelings" about CPU/Disk needs for an
> ipcop/DG combination? Right now, I have our ipcop running on a 500mhz
> PIII with a plain jane 20GB hard drive... Dare I install Dans on it?
> I figured it would puke out fast under a load...
>
> Thanks for opening this thread Will. :)
>
> -Shawn
>
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