[ILUG] Looking for firewall distro

[Stephen Brooks]

conor at discuskeeping.com wrote:
> Quoting Kevin Philp <kevin at cybercolloids.net>:
> 
>> I am looking for a recommendation for a home firewall. In the past I have
> 
> 
> A firewall will not prevent access to dodgy sites. So ipcop or 
> smoothwall will
> not help you here.
> 
>> routed my home machine through a Mandrake box set up with squid, 
>> iptables. We
>> have just installed broadband and I was going to put the 
>> firewall/proxy box
>> back on (my kids are just reaching "can I browse age") and was wondering
>> wether to switch to a dedicate firewall distro that I can administer
>> remotely...any recommendations or experinces? there seems to be a load of
>>
> 
> I think the most important thing is for some sort of net nanny software.
> My kids go to google, then search for whatever.
> 
> My old router (ADSL) has this suport (keyword blocking), but I am moving 
> to IBB
> as we speak. I currently only use IBB on my own box as I am afraid of 
> letting
> the kids accidentally access some dodgy site.
> 
> If anyone has any recomendations that would be great.
> 

The main "nanny" type tools I've come across are squidGuard (SG) and 
DansGuardian (DG).  The former blocks based on keywords/patterns in 
domains and urls and the latter blocks based on the actual page content. 
I believe DG now has some overlapping functionality with SG now.

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Stephen Brooks <stephen at lincor.com>      Digital Depot, Thomas Street
Senior Software Engineer                            Dublin 8, Ireland
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