Lots of possibilities, which is good. I like the idea of a computer (running Clark Connect) working as a hardware firewall & filter. I wish the guy helping me with networking had given me a bit more information other than just setting thngs up. If I had to graft another box to the current network, I would not know how, so I think this means I ultimately will have to start all over sooner or later. Perhaps when I have some time over Christmas break I will be able to learn some proper networking, at least enough to be able to independantly install LDAP etc to create a shared /home network by myself. ...in the meantime, last night I looked at DansGuardian ( http://www.dansguardian.org ) which I think is brilliant for the filtering side of things. Obviously a centralised internet server is the way to go other than separate machine installs. Following the install steps from http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/23/1521209.shtml effectively firewalled me off the 'net, but a bit of tweaking ( including chgrp & chown squid to /var/log/dansguardian and /var/log/dansguardian/access.log ) eventually got things running on my home Fedora Core box. I'm assuming that Clark Connect also uses the DansGuardian filter? I'm in agreement with Ben in that you've likely hit what I'm looking for in terms of security. Lancer. Nathan Cook - nathan at coast-computers.co.nz wrote: >If you want to leave everything as it is thats fine, what you can do is >install another PC inbetween the Server you currently have and the >Wireless link you have. The PC could be any old one and all you need to do >is set it up as a router with 2 NICs inside it forwarding the traffic from >the wireless link to the current server with the new PC also doing the >traffic filtering. > >Things you need to know is the IP address of the current server so as not >to conflict and forward to the correct IP address and thats about it, may >take an afternoon to setup maybe more as sometimes you can never tell ;) > >Wireless Link --> Router/Internet Filter --> Current Server --> Switch --> >Current PCs > >Hope that's clear, you could also add a filterer to each PC with apt-get >or whatever you use. > >Regards > >Nathan > > > >>I've now looked at Clark Connect. It appears to be a separate router / >>firewall distro. Already we are running FC and I assume applying Clark >>Connect would mean adding a new box as the main internet server. This >>may mean complications to the current shared /home dir setup... >>networking along these lines is where I tend to lack experience. >> >>At this point what I'm looking for is a nework filter along the lines of >>"Netnanny" to police children from accessing porn sites etc before it >>happens. It took a lot of tweaking around before Garth managed to get >>the current network cooperating in the shared /home sense. >> >>Would Clark Connect mean I have to uninstall the current setup and start >>all over? >> >>Seems like a lot of reinventing the wheel at this point, as the current >>applications, groups etc required for our school setup are currently up >>and running on FC. >> >>Lancer. >> >> >>Nathan Cook - nathan at coast-computers.co.nz wrote: >> >> >> >>>Hi Lance, >>> >>>You mentioned about updating your server at the school, heres the link >>>to Clark Connect http://www.clarkconnect.org/index.php, you should be >>>able to do everything that you want to do with this OS. >>> >>>I'm more than happy to help you upgrade as well, I have also arranged >>>to get a larger hard drive for it if needed (only IDE though) but if >>>SCSI is needed I should be able to one of those if I ask nicely. >>> >>>Regards >>> >>>Nathan >>> >>> >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>KLUG mailing list >>>KLUG at linux.net.nz >>>http://www.linux.net.nz/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/klug >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>KLUG mailing list >>KLUG at linux.net.nz >>http://www.linux.net.nz/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/klug >> >> > > > > >_______________________________________________ >KLUG mailing list >KLUG at linux.net.nz >http://www.linux.net.nz/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/klug > > > > >
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