[K12OSN] internet content filtering

[Jim Hays]

Our IPCop/DansGuardian machine for our main campus is a 1 Ghz Pentium 
with 512 MB RAM and an 80 GB HD (overkill).  I got it new last year for 
about $350.  Put IP Cop on it, installed DG and we were filtering away 
for <$500 with new equipment. 

This serves two schools and about 350 workstations and does the job 
well.  It is as much (or more) machine that what you get when buying a 
commercial appliace for $3000-5000.

IPCop 1.4 does support SCSI, but we could not find an easy install of DG 
for 1.4.  I do know of someone who does have DG ruinning on IPCop 14. 
with SCSI drives.

The cache is not a problem here and I do have it turned on.


Shawn Powers wrote:

> Jim Kronebusch wrote:
>
>> I second this.  All you need is a box (anything over a 133mhz with 32mb
>> ram should rock) with 2 or 3 NIC's, depending on if you want a DMZ.
>
>
> What about CPU needs of DG?  Also, since ipcop doesn't support SCSI, 
> does the cache beat this machine up?  (or can you set DG not to cache?)
>
> My problem is that I have a quad xeon (only 550mhz cpus) server with 
> SCSI drives that I plan to install squid on -- but if I could get it 
> all into one gateway/filter box, it'd make me happier. :)
>
> Anyone have any real-world "gut feelings" about CPU/Disk needs for an 
> ipcop/DG combination?  Right now, I have our ipcop running on a 500mhz 
> PIII with a plain jane 20GB hard drive...  Dare I install Dans on it?  
> I figured it would puke out fast under a load...
>
> Thanks for opening this thread Will. :)
>
> -Shawn
>