[K12OSN] internet content filtering

[Huck]

Shawn,

Huck is using redhat 7.something...
with squid and dansguardian...with caching...
with a 20 or 30 gig  IDE HD that fills up quite regularly during the 
school year...(haven't tweaked or played with it much)
I like it when my systems are built and require little to no maintenance...
it is a P3 600 with 128 megs of ram...
it is also a firewall/gateway machine...and does ip masquerading and dhcp

oh and the version of DG I'm using is whatever was out there in 2001 
when I built this box out... =)
Have done no upgrades except 'up2date'...and I don't use the AV plugin 
either ...

dansguardian at yahoogroups.com  is what DG uses for it's listserv-like thing.

I subscribe but usually just end up deleting about 50 mails a day 
without reading them...*shrugs*
every now and again one of interest comes up...
Here is one of the interesting ones I kept:

<quote>
DG 2.6.1 & SmoothWall install guide is here: http://projects.elmadera.com

DG 2.7.7 + AV pligin 4.3 & SmoothWall install guide is here:
http://community.smoothwall.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8071

</quote>

Enjoy =)

--Huck

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
>