From: Wayne S. Ackley (wackleyideorlando.org)
Date: Tue May 25 2004 - 12:17:14 CDT

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Amy,

What you want is something like these two projects for configuring your
firewall. Both are very good.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/guarddog/ and/or
http://firestarter.sourceforge.net/

Good luck!

-Wayne

-----Original Message-----
From: Amy A [mailto:discussash.st]
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 9:30 AM
To: discussmandrakesecure.net
Subject: Re: [discuss] Internet Usage

Thank you for your suggestion, With DansGuardian I believe you have to use
squid also. I kind of wanted to get away from squid, but if it is not
possible.....

Amy A.

On Friday 21 May 2004 08:46 pm, wackleyideorlando.org wrote:
> Guys,
> Correct if I'm wrong here, but I think you're looking for something like
> DansGuardian. Google it.
>
> -Wayne
>
> > For example, stopping hotmail, msn, aol (webbased). I guess I am
looking
> > for an equal to squidguard that allows you to block out domain names,
use
> > expressions as well as IP addresses. Since we had to use squid to use
> > squidguard it did not work out well even with squid cache set to '0' it
> > slowed us down too much.
> >
> > Amy A.
> >
> >> Amy,
> >>
> >> Please give some examples or be a little more detailed, so we can help
> >> you with some suggestions.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> -Wayne
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: discussash.st [mailto:discussash.st]
> >> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 1:25 PM
> >> To: discussmandrakesecure.net
> >> Subject: [discuss] Internet Usage
> >>
> >>
> >> Hello All,
> >>
> >> I was looking for some information or suggestions on a package to limit
> >> internet usage within our network. I have used squid and squidguard,
> >> but did not get good results. We just need stop the usage of many
> >> web-based 'home' accounts mostly. I am using shorewall as a firewall,
> >> and have learned that using the blacklists does not stop clients in our
> >> network from connecting. So any suggestions would be greatly
> >> appreciated!!
> >>
> >> Thank you very much.
> >>
> >> Amy A.

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