<br><p><DEFANGED_div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" DEFANGED_style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><br>Check out <a href="http://www.smoothwall.org" target="_blank">
www.smoothwall.org</a><br><br>Its a linux based firewall with some goodies built in. It runs a squid<br>proxy - which will log all the sites requested by IP. Also has a ton<br>plugins such as Dans Guardian to help filter out unwanted content. It
<br>can also schedule internet access for certian times, and can log /<br>block all IM conversations. Also comes stock with Antivirus scanner,<br>QoS, and an IDS. All you need is a low-end box with a couple nic's.<br>
Mine runs on a 1.0ghz / 256MB / 20 GIG, and idles at about 5 or 6% with<br>everything turned on.<br><br>Ive been running it for a few years now - really stable product.<br><p><DEFANGED_div><p><DEFANGED_div></p><DEFANGED_div><p><DEFANGED_div class="Wj3C7c"><br>_______________________________________________
</p><DEFANGED_div></p><DEFANGED_div></blockquote><p><DEFANGED_div><br>I have also been using Smoothwall for a long time. I ran it at home on P-133 with 64MB for a couple of years. It ran well, but the web interface was slow on that setup. I now use it at work as the firewall/squid proxy/content filter for 20 users running on a Duron-933MHz with 512MB. The interface runs at an acceptable speed, but updating the content filters can be tedious.
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