free internet cafe..sort of

Ish

Ish

Ish

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Hi

At the community centre where I help out they want to have 10 pc's which can be used by the community for free internet access etc.

This internet access needs to be monitored ie. porn sites etc need to be blocked & some sort of download/upload speed limits need setting.

What's the cheapest way of doing this?

Thanks
 
Linux machine with DansGuardian , free, and close to the quality of commercial solutions costing $lots. If you don't have a spare machine, you could always put an extra network adaptor in one of your machines, and run a distro of Linux + DansGuardian in VMware server, running as a background service - also free software.

There's a distro of Linux which is geared towards just providing internet access and network services, with a web-based admin for firewall rules, routing, QoS, filtering, etc - called IPCop, it can run straight from a CD without installing. There's apparently a DansGuardian module for IPCop, which sounds like it could be the easiest way, although I've never tried it myself.
 
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IPCop is/was a code branch of Smoothwall GPL, better bet is probably Clark Connect (again free) but not much between it and IPCop and it all falls in that personal taste grey area.
 
CensorNet v3

It runs DansGuardian and has a rather nice GUI for all monitoring, logging, disabling certain computers from accessing the net and so on...

immense bit of kit. :)
 
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