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Alternatives to Untangle

her209

her209

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Are there any other Linux/Windows based software that perform similar transparent proxying type functions?
 
There are lots of docs out there on setting up transparent proxying on Linux, I'm not sure what distros come with GUI config tools like Untangle though. Why are you looking for an alternative to Untangle anyway?
 
I looked at this about 2-3 years back and settled on untangle for a quick bandaid on a client site. It's worked better than 3 other hardware routers for them.
 
ClearOS is a CentOS-based alternative. However, the devs are in mid-swing for pushing out ClearOS Enterprise 6.1 (Core is just a recompilation of CentOS) and it's still in beta (and I expect it to be for a while). I currently use ClearOS 5.1 (based on CentOS 5.5 or so) and it's decent. You lose some features (like the newer virtual IP implementation in the newer kernels like ClearOS 6.1 is based off of) but it's stable and the WebUI makes it all easy, but the underpinnings are still widely available software with standard conf files so it's easy to do advanced configurations from the shell.
 
I've used Untangle for clients without issue. It's so dead simple to use that at first I was frustrated because I kept wanting the ability to tweak things just the way I thought they should be. After much bantering about on their forums, other users convinced me to just leave things the way they were.... and I haven't looked back since!

It "just works". Not the sort of *nix setup I'm used to, where I have to keep an eye on updates and packages and stuff... they (Untangle) keep it nicely updated. The only package I bought from them was an extra SPAM package.

You should at least give it a try.

Joe
 
You can use Astaro security gateway software for home use for free (50 ip connection limit):

http://www.astaro.com/landingpages/en-worldwide-homeuse

great support through user forum:

http://www.astaro.org

I maintain a commercial paid installation for the school district I work for, and use the free home license at home. You have to provide the hardware, but it doesn't need a monster to run (I have it on a Foxconn Intel atom D525 based box with 2 Gb ram I built for under $140). You can also do what many others do and recycle an old machine laying around the house to run it on. It works great as a simple transparent proxy and web filter, but is capable of so much more if you want to really dig into managing it.
 
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I just set up a pfsense http://www.pfsense.org/ box over the weekend to replace my router.

I'm only on a 768k/128k DSL connection and kept getting frustrated by Steam consuming every single bit of bandwidth on an update. Took me a little bit but I've got Steam limited to 256k now.

Also setup Squid3 on it. It caches those pbskids games quite nicely so when my kid plays it doesn't suck my bandwidth down anymore.

Now to tune it so World of Tanks has the highest priority on bandwidth so I don't notice when the wife is surfing... 🙂
 
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