<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>I take care of IT for a school and we are now using Smoothwall 3.0 Opensource with Dansguardian filtering and OpenDNS as well. It is working extremely well and with SARG reporting I can see where everyone went and who tried to go where they weren't supposed to.</div><div><br></div><div>I agree with Darin though that any network should go through OpenDNS for it's filtering and Anti-Phishing capability and it will soon include Anti-botnet functions.</div><div><br></div><div>If you would like to know more about Smoothwall just let me know and I can show you the one in production at the school.</div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Your brother in Christ,</div><div>Jason</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br><div><div>On Aug 20, 2009, at 2:41 PM, Dan Barber wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div> <font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">Folks,<br> It is time for our Content Filtering renewal. I am looking into various options, since prices have gone up on our current subscription (SonicWall). What do you use? What do you like/dislike about it?<br> <br> Is anyone using the Barracuda Content Filter? Websense (Express)?<br> <br> I want to accomplish two things:<br> </span></font><ul><li><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">Keep things secure for our elementary school </span></font></li><li><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">Avoid having a proxy server<br> </span></font></li></ul><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br> Thanks for your thoughts!<br> <br> Dan Barber<br> Network Administrator<br> Kirk of the Hills</span></font> </div> _______________________________________________<br>it discuss mailing list: <a href="mailto:discuss@itdiscuss.org">discuss@itdiscuss.org</a><br>Mailing List: <a href="http://itdiscuss.org/discuss">http://itdiscuss.org/discuss</a><br>Web Discussion Board: <a href="http://itdiscuss.org/discuss-forum">http://itdiscuss.org/discuss-forum</a><br>Wiki: <a href="http://itdiscuss.org/wiki">http://itdiscuss.org/wiki</a><br>Internet Relay Chat: irc://irc.freenode.net/citrt<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>