Re: [K12OSN] Internet Filtering Costs

["Gavin Spurgeon" <gsp leighctc kent sch uk>]

Hi List...

> I am in the process of replacing the E-Smith filters with IPCOP.
> (http://www.ipcop.org).  There is a very easy to install Dans Guardian add
> on.  It is not as "heavy" as E-Smith.  It is designed as a firewall/filter
> only and does not include the file sharing, etc. of E-Smith.  (I will
still
> use E-Smith as our email server and web server.)

I currently run a School network with ~2500 Students, 200+ Teaching Staff
and ~150 Other Staff. we have 300+ Laptops for all teaching staff & some
classrooms, with a 2MB SDSL internet connection... all sitting behind an
IPCop
running on a 2.0GHz P4, 512MB DDR, 40GB HDD & Dansguardian....
I am the developer behind the Dansguardian IPCop Add-On witch can be found
@ http://www.dageek.co.uk/ipcop
This whole system works really really well with ~2.5Gb of traffic over a
normal
school day...


Best Regards

Gavin Spurgeon
Assistant Systems Administrator
http://www.leighctc.kent.sch.uk
Tel: 01322 620541