DarkOne_BW
Limp Gawd
- Joined
- Apr 21, 2002
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I admin a small-school network and have been using a Debian&Squid solution sold by N2H2 for my HTTP content filtering.
I'm now looking into moving away from the proxy of old and into a NAT solution with a Cisco ASA and some content filter that works well with the PIX IOS.
Question for anyone out there using a PIX or ASA:
What content filtering solutions do you use?
I've not been entirely pleased with N2H2. While their solution tends to block most of my unwanted content, there are some issues, mainly the circumvention methods that so easily defeat Bess, the responsiveness of the proxy itself, and some issues with using an http proxy (primarily with OSX and Adobe Reader7). For laughs, I did name my new female golden retriever Bess. heh
I'm just looking for alternatives to N2H2 (now Secure Computing) and hope some admins out there have experience with those alternatives. Price really isn't so much of an issue... most of the companies that provide content filters seem to be pretty competetive.
I'm now looking into moving away from the proxy of old and into a NAT solution with a Cisco ASA and some content filter that works well with the PIX IOS.
Question for anyone out there using a PIX or ASA:
What content filtering solutions do you use?
I've not been entirely pleased with N2H2. While their solution tends to block most of my unwanted content, there are some issues, mainly the circumvention methods that so easily defeat Bess, the responsiveness of the proxy itself, and some issues with using an http proxy (primarily with OSX and Adobe Reader7). For laughs, I did name my new female golden retriever Bess. heh
I'm just looking for alternatives to N2H2 (now Secure Computing) and hope some admins out there have experience with those alternatives. Price really isn't so much of an issue... most of the companies that provide content filters seem to be pretty competetive.