Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I installed a network of five desktops in a small town hall, all running > CentOS 5.4. The machines are publicly, and the mayor asked me to find > some solution to effectively filter web content, as the kids' first > reflex is to visit the interesting bits of the Internet first, from > satanism to porn. > > One of the machines will be set up as a router anyway, since the public > computer room gets its internet access from the town hall, and I've > decided to make another subnet for it. > > Any recommendations for that? > > Niki > I have DansGuardian set up on my home Linux server that acts as the router for our home network, and it does a great job of web filtering on the fly. (I have grade school kids at home). You basically configure a transparent proxy so all HTTP traffic is filtered, and it's configurable as to what categories you want to allow or block. I use RPMs available from RPMForge. http://dansguardian.org/ http://packages.sw.be/dansguardian/ -Greg