Comments on: Beginners RRAS or ICS question

By: boardinhank

boardinhank — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:45:13 +0000

Just a note, what ICS does is turn your 2000 server into a router for the other pc’s, they use the ip of the 2000 server as their gateway and as long as the 2000 server has internet connectivity then their traffic will route just fine. You are not required to get the static ip even though for allot of things I like the static and recommend it.

By: boardinhank

boardinhank — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:42:23 +0000

I imaginge you are using DSL of some kind and you should look at getting a static ip address with that, then you can actually set the static address that they give you to the WAN interface, and the WAN gateway will be the DSL router. This should be fine.

By: dolson

dolson — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 10:59:04 +0000

You might try another solution for Internet access for your group. I’m not sure if your comfortible with Linux, but there is a distribution called IPCOP witch is designed to be a Firewall/Router/Gateway. There are also enhancements for this distribution that allow content filtering and stuff like that. IPCOP is also free and because it is linux based, is is not picked on as much as M$ machines are. It requires very little processing power, can run as proxy, provides DHCP addressing and frequently runs on old PC’s that have been removed from service. Pentium 150/200 Mhz/Pentium II/Celeron will do just fine to run IPCOP. It is administered through SSL/Web Interface so you don’t need to know linux to get it rolling. For Internet conectivity for groups, this is a great and secure way to go. Check it out at http://www.ipcop.org.

By: kmnair

kmnair — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 22:43:13 +0000

Talking about proxies, there is free windows proxy available. Go to handcraftedsoftware.org. They have an excellent free windows proxy. That should serve most of the points you are searhing for. But I have a vague and uneasy feeling that they may go commercial any moment with the kind of features the package has.

kmnair

By: gvamos

gvamos — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:24:44 +0000

There are various proxy packages you could run on the server that can block access at certain times , to certain sites and from certain machines. Some of them are quite affordable.

By: bobkberg

bobkberg — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:05:37 +0000

Yes, you can lock out tweakui, but last time I tried that, I couldn’t get it back either – and I was administrator!
What I’d recommend instead is making sure that the disk format is NTFS, and using file permissions to lock out anyone but admin from using it. In fact – put it and other tools in a locked-down directory.

Anything you’re doing with Internet content blocking is going to be firewall or software dependent, so I’ve got no advice there, other than having eyes in the back of your head. But then, every parent knows that!

Bob