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Network ideas

todpod

todpod

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So here is my issue. I am redoing a small network at a after school program. The network is set up simply, it just has 6 windows boxes hooked to a switch and thats hooked to a dsl router/modem combo. It worked reasonably well. Fast forward to now. I am acquiring a bunch of celerons from a bank that is giving them to us. Other then needing hard drives its all good. The original boxes were set up with w2k with filtering software and all that goodness. But a couple of the machines were reformated and had xp. A kid broke in and was looking at porn, he was charged with the break in.

Now the new set up I will probably run edubuntu, or just ubuntu. Thought about running thin clients but I don't have a sever with enough horsepower for that. I would like to slow the kids down from finding the bad stuff more or less accidentally and somebody having a fit . What is a good way to handle this, I have no budget, but I have a bunch of computers that I can use for a router and or firewall. I am open to ideas. Thanks Todd
 
You'll need content filtering at the network level for that. Look into Squid. It's a linux-based caching proxy that has content filtering built in, I believe.
 
Squid is good, opendns.com will also work pretty well. you just set the dns servers as theirs, setup a free account and choose the sections you want blocked. You can also do custom white and blacklists
 
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