Joggler as a firewall

[marctwo]

I am thinking about using one of my Jogglers as a proxy / firewall. I assume the easiest way to do this would be under Ubuntu. Does anyone have any recommendations about how to go about this? I mainly want something with parental controls so I can restrict web access for kids.

[pete]

Personally I like Smoothwall. You may be able to utilize the Smoothwall ISO. I'm running SW today on a Netier overclocked to 600Mhz via an AMD CPU with 512 Mb. The application is running off an IDE connected 4Gb CF drive. Its been running fine for "years" now. Doesn't take much to run it; way better than the HW firewalls out there. You can add Dan's Guardian to it; it's running Snort by default and AV.

[marctwo]

Thanks for the reply. I found this link which explains how to set up Dan's Guardian, ClamAV and Squid so I thought I'd give it a go on the birdslikewires Ubuntu Server install.

http://www.howtoforge.com/squid-proxy-s ... -detection

[roobarb!]

Ah, you may well be the first to use my server release for something other than reflashing! Please post back and let us know how it goes.

[marctwo]

Will do. Might be a while though because I don't have much time to work on this, and I don't have a clue what I am doing!

Does the server install switch off the screen after a period of inactivity? If not, is there any way of doing this?

[roobarb!]

Will do. Might be a while though because I don't have much time to work on this, and I don't have a clue what I am doing!

Does the server install switch off the screen after a period of inactivity? If not, is there any way of doing this?

Yes, it does - although whether the backlight is turned off as well, I don't remember. This can be solved pretty easily using xset though. Type 'man xset', probably after typing 'sudo apt-get install xset'.

[marctwo]

Will do. Might be a while though because I don't have much time to work on this, and I don't have a clue what I am doing!

Does the server install switch off the screen after a period of inactivity? If not, is there any way of doing this?

Yes, it does - although whether the backlight is turned off as well, I don't remember. This can be solved pretty easily using xset though. Type 'man xset', probably after typing 'sudo apt-get install xset'.

The backlight does not get turned off. I shall install xset and see if I can get something working, thanks again for your help.

[facetook]

Hello. Did you manage to get this to run? Any chance of a tutorial please?

Thank you

[marctwo]

I installed ubuntu server but had a number of errors when installing Squid. I didn't have a chance to work out why and, when I came back to investigate there where a number of file system errors showing. I might have another go in a few weeks time.

[roobarb!]

I installed ubuntu server but had a number of errors when installing Squid. I didn't have a chance to work out why and, when I came back to investigate there where a number of file system errors showing. I might have another go in a few weeks time.

I'm not sure that /etc/fstab is set to run a fsck on the filesystem - which is likely to lead to FS errors if you're in the habit of powering off without shutting down. To turn it on, change the last '0' at the end of the line mounting 'linux-root' in /etc/fstab to a '1'.