From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 28 23:24:41 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6373716A400 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:24:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out3.apple.com (mail-out3.apple.com [17.254.13.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C7ED13C457 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:24:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay6.apple.com (relay6.apple.com [17.128.113.36]) by mail-out3.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38806A829B6; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:24:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay6.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay6.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 22C7D1006D; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:24:41 -0700 (PDT) X-AuditID: 11807124-a14dfbb0000007e2-42-46844339668b Received: from [17.214.13.96] (int-si-a.apple.com [17.128.113.41]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay6.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 0C26C1006A; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:24:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200706281850.41831.derrick@uniquestrength.net> References: <200706281850.41831.derrick@uniquestrength.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:24:40 -0700 To: zigniew szalbot X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd / gateway / parental control X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:24:41 -0000 On Jun 28, 2007, at 4:07 PM, zigniew szalbot wrote: >> I use squid and dansguardian. Very easy to setup. >> /usr/ports/www/dansguardian > > I have never tried squid but it seems quite a big package. I have also > seen oops but not sure which to choose. Basically, will squid not > be an > overkill for a family network consisting of 3-4 machines? The box I > want > to devote for gateway/pc purposes is a Compaq PIII 866 Mhz with 512 > MB RAM > and 40GB HD. Squid works just fine for a single-user environment, even, especially if you use an adblocker and/or override the local DNS for annoying adfarm sites to return just a transparent 1x1 pixel GIF image instead of the ads. Squid is noticeably smarter about figuring out when to recheck web resources for changes and do so efficiently compared to pretty much all of the local caching done by browsers. -- -Chuck