[K12OSN] Filtering anyone?
Jim Hays
haysja at sages.us
Sat Jun 4 00:38:15 UTC 2005
I echo Joe's sentiments. There are several schools here in Illinois that are
using IPCop with Cop+ (Dan's Guardian). It works well and is easy to manage. I
use it in 5 schools in our district.
We used to use SME with squidguard and it worked well for us, but IPCop is much
better.
Quoting Joe Guenther <jguenther at chinooksedge.ab.ca>:
> I use IPcop and DansGuardian. It works very well for us. I use it in 3
> schools, there are a few others in our division that also use it. I
> tried it with SquidGuard, but prefer the Cop+ (DansGuardian) better. It
> uses a bit more horsepower, but does a better job. I run it on a
> PIII600/256MB RAM and serve a school of 350 students with about 1Gb of
> data/day. With 128Mb it would run for a few weeks and then start using
> lots of swap. With 256 it just runs and runs.
>
> I had also tried SME server with squid/squidGuard but never got that to
> work properly.
> We also tried OpenBsd with privoxy and that would crash under heavy
> load. squid/DansGuardian works much better.
>
> my 2 bits worth
> Joe Guenther
>
> Jamie McParland wrote:
>
> >Summer is almost here and time for upgrades! Right now we are using squid
> >and squid guard for our porn filtering on our firewall.
> >
> >I would like to see what everyone else is using. I hear good things about
> >dans guardian. I've even seen a distro based on this. Is anyone using
> this?
> >
> >We need to be able to poke holes in our firewall for static maps to our
> >weather stations, webservers, etc.
> >
> >Thoughts? Comments?
> >
> >Jamie McParland
> >Newberg Public Schools.
> >
> >
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Jim Hays
Technology Director
Monticello CUSD#25
Monticello, IL 61856
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