[WEB4LIB] Re: Firewall/Filter software for NT4

[Don Hamilton]

I know I shouldn't reply to my own post, but I need to correct one thing. It
is WinProxy (at www.winproxy.com )
that is $299, with a 20%discount. Wingate( www.wingate.com ) is relatively
more expensive.
And, while I'm at it, apache is at www.apache.org. I have yet to actually
install any of these (the server just arrived today).



Don Hamilton(dhamilto at mach2.wlu.ca)
Information Technology & Librarian by Osmosis
Wilfrid Laurier University/Tri University Group
519-884-0710-x3336, fax 519-884-8023

-----Original Message-----
From: Don Hamilton <dhamilto at mach2.wlu.ca>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Date: Tuesday, October 06, 1998 11:15
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Firewall/Filter software for NT4


|I also have been looking for the same thing, for the same reasons. At
|present, I'm examing use of the APACHE web server, using proxy mode to do
|the filtering. It is free, although it comes with warnings about still
being
|beta in the NT environment. I've also downloaded WINGATE, a commercial
|product, which looks fairly similar. It's 'list' price is 299(us), but it
|does come with a 20% ed'nl discount (I asked).
|
|I'm new to this list, so I don't know if protocol requires us to take the
|discussion 'off-list' or not, but I would like to be part of a discussion
of
|the issues of running a cyber-cafe in the library.
|
|
|Don Hamilton(dhamilto at mach2.wlu.ca)
|Information Technology & Librarian by Osmosis
|Wilfrid Laurier University/Tri University Group
|519-884-0710-x3336, fax 519-884-8023
|
|-----Original Message-----
|From: Dan Lester <dan at 84.com>
|To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at webjunction.org>
|Date: Tuesday, October 06, 1998 10:55
|Subject: [WEB4LIB] Firewall/Filter software for NT4
|
|
||Help, please.  In the last month or two I saw a new product announcement
||for a software package that works as a proxy server/firewall/filter system
||for businesses or other organizations.  It ran on NT4 and cost $299.
Well,
||I clipped the announcement and then promptly lost it.
||
||Now, of course, I need the information on this product, or something
||similar (NT4, relatively cheap, etc.)
||
||What we want to do is to block specific sites from our public
workstations.
|| No, I don't want something that installs on the local machines.  I want
to
||be able to block all chat, email, and game sites.  I know that we'll never
||catch them all, but will at least be able to stop the bozos that try to
||camp out on hotmail.com, chat.yahoo.com, and so forth.  The machines have
||signs on them forbidding chat, email, and games, and the default page and
||the wallpaper also post the policy.  Of course the same clowns over and
||over "didn't know it was against the rules" and all that, and we'd sure
||like to eliminate some of the aggravation with these folks.
||
||I would consider something that ran on the workstations, but I'd really
||like to avoid that, partly for economic reasons, partly due to possible
||conflicts with security software.
||
||thanks
||
||dan
||
||
||
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