I have no idea what's a good hardware-based firewall, or anything networking for that matter. However, my teacher at school has asked me to find one that will allow him to instead of block certain sites, only enable certain sites. I don't know where to begin on this but I'm afraid to say I don't know anything about it so help please!
if you don't have a lot of users just install linux on an old computer and toss squid on it
[QUOTE=Yumyumbublegum;40653183]if you don't have a lot of users just install linux on an old computer and toss squid on it[/QUOTE]
Squid is an HTTP proxy, not a router.
A Linux router is the way to go though. You could go with a distro like Xubuntu and configure all of the services manually to make a working router, but that has a steep learning curve if you don't know how BIND, DHCP and IPTables work.
Luckily there are some preconfigured Linux distros for firewalls/routing. I'd recommend Smoothwall:
[url]http://www.smoothwall.org/[/url]
But there are others like ClearOS:
[url]http://www.clearfoundation.com/[/url]
These distros run well on machines as old as Pentium 3s, as long as you have sufficient RAM.
[QUOTE=bohb;40673897]Squid is an HTTP proxy, not a router.
A Linux router is the way to go though. You could go with a distro like Xubuntu and configure all of the services manually to make a working router, but that has a steep learning curve if you don't know how BIND, DHCP and IPTables work.
Luckily there are some preconfigured Linux distros for firewalls/routing. I'd recommend Smoothwall:
[url]http://www.smoothwall.org/[/url]
But there are others like ClearOS:
[url]http://www.clearfoundation.com/[/url]
These distros run well on machines as old as Pentium 3s, as long as you have sufficient RAM.[/QUOTE]
PFsense as well.
[url]www.pfsense.org[/url]
Thanks for the replies. We have a number of shitboxes laying around that we can use for a dedicated router box. Judging from the ratings PFSense is the preferred router OS. Either way, it shouldn't be too hard to set up. These OSes have network interfaces so the teacher can control them from his desktop right?
They have a web control panel, you set the passwords when you install the router distro.
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