[ILUG] Looking for firewall distro

[Kiall Mac Innes]

DG and possibly squidGuard are available as ipcop addons.. (free of 
course...)

Kiall

Stephen Brooks wrote:

> 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.
>