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Subject: RE: Parental control software/lists for FreeBSD
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On 27-Jun-98 Berend de Boer wrote:
> On Saturday, June 27, 1998 4:44 PM, Malte Lance [SMTP:malte@webmore.com]
> wrote:
> 
>> > For a school in my area I want to setup a FreeBSD server as a gateway to 
>> > the internet. However I like to block certain sites. Is there software 
>> > available with FreeBSD which let me do this? 
>> 
>> Yes, try "ipfw"
> 
> Thanks, but
> 
> 
>> > And are there lists of sites 
> 
> Do you know any of these? 

No sorry.

> Can ipfw handle large lists? I.e. thousands of ip
> addresses to block?

Sure it can.
Maybe you have to tune some kernel-settings.
Search the mail-archives for hints.

Malte.

> 
> Groetjes,
> 
> Berend.
> 
> 
> 

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E-Mail: Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com>
Date: 27-Jun-98
Time: 19:02:24
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