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Web filter for a network

FongMan

FongMan

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Feb 4, 2006
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Hi guys,

I need help with something. I am setting up a house with 5 Macs (1 Mac Pro and 4 laptops) and a couple PCs. Lots of kids, so we want a web filter, however I travel a lot and would want to be able to remotely manage the filter from wherever I am. So my thoughts are to have all internet traffic go through the Mac Pro and from there to the client computers, that way I wouldn't need to get a program for each and every computer but only the Mac Pro. And if I need to remotely manage the filter I would only need to access the Mac Pro instead of individual computers.

Any help would be appreciated.
 
FongMan said:
Hi guys,

I need help with something. I am setting up a house with 5 Macs (1 Mac Pro and 4 laptops) and a couple PCs. Lots of kids, so we want a web filter, however I travel a lot and would want to be able to remotely manage the filter from wherever I am. So my thoughts are to have all internet traffic go through the Mac Pro and from there to the client computers, that way I wouldn't need to get a program for each and every computer but only the Mac Pro. And if I need to remotely manage the filter I would only need to access the Mac Pro instead of individual computers.

Any help would be appreciated.
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Sounds like you can do what you want to do through your router. No need to send all the traffic through your Mac Pro.
 
Tomorrow said:
Sounds like you can do what you want to do through your router. No need to send all the traffic through your Mac Pro.
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Yes, exactly I want to put the filter to the network and as opposed to individual computers. I was thinking of using the Mac Pro but if I can do something to the router that would be fantastic. My setup is Modem => Time Capsule => Airport Extreme and Expresses. They are all connected via ethernet.
 
You can't use the airport devices to filter unfortunately. Would you consider using opendns? you can block categories of websites using opendns, not leaving you to discover the sites before you block them. If you put LogMeIn on the MacPro, you could access your computer from anywhere in the world, and change the settings from wherever you are.
 
donalmacc said:
You can't use the airport devices to filter unfortunately. Would you consider using opendns? you can block categories of websites using opendns, not leaving you to discover the sites before you block them. If you put LogMeIn on the MacPro, you could access your computer from anywhere in the world, and change the settings from wherever you are.
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Opendns is free as well I believe, great suggestion. That would work great, but how do I setup the Mac Pro to have all content go through it?
 
Thoughts anybody? How can I setup my Mac Pro so that it filters all internet content?
 
FongMan said:
Thoughts anybody? How can I setup my Mac Pro so that it filters all internet content?
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What are you even talking about? Since you're asking the question, you can't. Turning a Mac Pro into a traffic shaper is a waste of time and money. Use OpenDNS and set it up so your gateway router always points to it; then manage your content restriction from the web interface.
 
miles01110 said:
What are you even talking about? Since you're asking the question, you can't. Turning a Mac Pro into a traffic shaper is a waste of time and money. Use OpenDNS and set it up so your gateway router always points to it; then manage your content restriction from the web interface.
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Yeh sorry, I only heard about OpenDNS, but now I am realizing it's kind of like a cloud right? So how does it work, I put in proxy settings provided by OpenDNS and they do all the filtering? How does that work when it comes to managing acceptable or sites that I want to block?
 
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