help with web content filtering/proxies

Trio3b · 02-07-2006, 10:35 PM

Sorry, newb has read 95% of all the squid and webfiltering howtos but can't figure out how to put it together IN CONTEXT. Yes I can change the port setting in Squid, yes I know that shorewall is a frontend to iptables.

But that doesn't explain relationship of these apps to firewalls, PC gateways, networks, etc...
Anyone willing to help out would be appreciated.
Thanks

masand · 02-08-2006, 12:05 AM

please be precise in your questions

what do u want to know?

born4linux · 02-08-2006, 08:07 PM

you can use shorewall+squid to do transparent proxying for your network (ie route all web request to your proxy). then setup dansguardian:

http://dansguardian.org/?page=documentation

suggested sequence:
- setup your network (be sure connections is OK)
- use shorewall to do NAT first
- setup squid and set your clients to manually use it first.
- if above works fine, do transparent proxying
- if transparent proxying is OK, setup dansguardian.