On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Jake Moe
<jakesaddress@gmail.com> wrote:
A bit off topic, but this group seems to know a lot about this sort of
subject.
I've caught the 11 year old at home browsing sites he really shouldn't
be. I'd like to implement some sort of filter so that he can only
access "approved" sites, but myself and my o/h can browse whatever we
want. What is the best way to implement this? A firewall? Some sort
of web proxy? Something else? I've got a few Gentoo computers, one
that tri-boots between Windows XP (for work), Windows 7 (for games) and
Gentoo (for everything else), and one Windows laptop (my o/h won't give
it up) connecting to one wireless AP/router.
I'm thinking maybe a single firewall would be the way to go, but I
suppose it'd have to something that we could "log" into to let it know
who's who; I've never heard of a firewall that does that. Otherwise,
maybe a software firewall on each PC, but it'd be a bit cumbersome
across all the PCs, unless it had some sort of central management server.
A web search seems to show a Squid proxy may be the way to go, as well.
but I'm not familiar enough with that to know if it'll really do what I
want.
Any help/suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
Jake Moe
This is something I wish there was more information about free/open solutions available to assist parents in this exact situation.
So, dansguardian [1] is a good place to start, and here [2] is a nice article on
linux.com that provides an actual solution.
I think it would be really helpful if you could document what you learn as you traverse this situation, so that other may benefit as well. Perhaps a gentoo forum topic in addition to this ML might be appropriate.
Also, I have seen around some talk about running a setup like this on a WRT router running DD-WRT and another system called packetprotector running openwrt [3]
Cheers and good luck,
Matt
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Matthew W. Summers
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