[SPAM-Score-7.2] [K12OSN] differentiated internet filtering by grade level question

[Jesse McDonnell]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 19:09:57 -0600
Tim Litwiller <tim at litwiller.net> wrote:

> The most configurable with a web Gui I know of is to replace your BESS 
> with Censor.net Linux - 

I've got input but I'm not a decision-maker in this process and I don't expect that BESS will be replaced.  Do you/anyone have any suggestions on how to provide differentiated filtering with BESS? Can BESS be configured to allow users coming through proxy-IP-1 to go to sites and disallow access to the same sites to users coming through proxy-IP-2? 

I'm the computer volunteer at my local public library and run IPCOP with Dansguardian to provide firewalling and filtering.  Doing what I'm suggesting would be relatively easy with this setup, though there may be some problems of scale I'm not aware of.   Any relaxing of the filtering that is implemented at school will have to be workable within our Windows and BESS environment. Thanks for the suggestions so far.

Jesse

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> > I'm a high school librarian and have a question on whether anyone is using the same proxy server and filtering software to provide different filtering to students at different grade levels.  Everyone in the district currently goes through the same proxy server and has the same level of filtering.  All Web-based email is blocked as are file transfer sites like yousendit. We're having an ongoing discussion of the filtering policy and how much of a threat web-based email presents.
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> > I have an override account on the BESS filter so students in the library can access their email to download large files they are transferring back-and-forth between home and school when students don't have jump drives. When they are in the computer lab or using wireless laptops in the classroom they are unable to do it since I'm the only one in the building with an override. I'm wondering how difficult it would be to have everyone in the high school go through a different (or aliased) proxy IP that would have unfiltered access to webmail. 
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> > We are in a windows enviroinment and using BESS (N2H2) filtering software. IP addresses are assigned by a Windows DHCP server. We don't use roaming profiles. Students don't have email accounts through the school district and account names are of the form GraduationyearLastnameFirstinitial (06smithj is joe smith graduating in 2006). When they login the start menu and the apps available are mapped from a folder on one of the servers.  So it would simple to change the proxy IP address in IE for all high school students. 
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> > How best to deal with this situation....? 
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