Hi all,

Well, hope this is the right forum for my question.
Anyway, if ok with you I wanted to ask you a little question, which answer would take probably less time than read the mail.

I am leading a feasibility study of the architecture of a Web filtering tool .....

Well that I know.. ,,,the few tools to do it, are
1) a on-line service with a third party company I.E. cobion ...
or
2) the combination that also micro"l"oft use black/with list coupled with a content rate filtering engine... this is not that ok because the majority of the sites are not labelled... so mostly all will be blocked!!

So what is left is the "outsourced" service as cobion.. which his not free... (cobion maintains servers and databases with all urls sorted by category and levels)

Question:

Is it possible to have some info/name of software/ company whatever, some tips how to do this without paying or using expansive outsourced service?

Any help appreciated

Cheers,
giovanni

you might want to look into a setup using squid and the tool dansguardian I've used both before many times to excellent results

Thanks a lot ... I have commented like this: you opened a big window on the sight of my brain: now I need to understand what I am Seeing...
What I need squid for?? Is that to make the linux act as a proxy?

What if I have a proxy myself? Can I redirect my proxy to a linux that does only content filtering? Do I always need squid??could you explain me the set up?
I explain to you mine:

What if I manufacture layer 3 device for accessing internet, and my client i.e. a telco or ISP want that feature from the router: he wants web filtering and propose/install to his clients my modem/router which can do webfiltering...

So I have my modem/router... then I ask my software and hardware people to install an embedded proxy agent... this will query the linux box and based on the answer it will permit or deny the page... is that feasible? Do I still need squid in the linux??

thanks infinitives :-)