Smoothwall, Help please.

[AstroTurf]

just read a few reports from SARG, the headings are all in French or something?

"NUMÉRO IDENTIFIANT ACCÈS OCTETS %OCTETS DANS-CACHE-HORS DURÉE millisecondes %DURÉE"

 

[Rocket-Boy]

I really need to look at smoothwall again. It was good 2 years ago when I last used it and im sure it has only become more user friendly since then.

 

[AstroTurf]

Yea, few hiccups during initial config (as can be seen in this thread) and it's working well now

Still not ready to go live in my opinion but pretty close, will test a bit more.

 

[AstroTurf]

Use SARG for reports generated.

SARG : http://community.smoothwall.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=25013

There is a way to disable URL filter (between certain times) :

After asking the question here (http://community.smoothwall.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=32285) I got it to work...

The solution :

Do you know if it is possible to disable the entire url filter during certain hours? (Don't care if people surf porn/facebook/whatever during lunch, tea and after hours).

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Do you know if it is possible to disable the entire url filter during certain hours? (Don't care if people surf porn/facebook/whatever during lunch, tea and after hours).

Take the guidelines I have posted and modify them to taste. That's all I can think of for now. I think you will need to use more than one line for the service(s) you want to unblock.

Or else unblock everything, but set the rules up so it'll be blocked during certain times.



Re SARG - the french stuff usually go away after a few hours or so. Did the same with me.

 

[AstroTurf]

Found an advanced url filter addon, Seems to work

Disabled it for now but will enable it at lunch time and see if it blocks me after lunch time is over.

 

[AstroTurf]

Works perfectly (enabled it a few minutes before lunch time, went to a blocked site and was blocked, waited for 12, went back to the site and unblocked).

Now just to get NTLM working properly.

 

[AstroTurf]

http://community.smoothwall.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=33889

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Open source FTW

 

[AstroTurf]

Just a bit of feedback:

Running like a dream, url filter working perfectly on a time basis and sarg is in English

 

[iDOL]

Well seems I am going to have to go the smoothwall route as well.

It appears my home network was compromised somewhat, so will look at getting Smoothwall up and running.

Seen as the call for help in this thread is up, I hope the op doesn't mind the hijack.

Going to set my smoothwall up in a VM instead of a single dedicated machine.

 

[AstroTurf]

not at all and will help f I can

 

[The_Unbeliever]

iDOL - If going the virtual way, do make sure your HDD is >4Gb in size - otherwise logrotation won't work.

But it is possible & do work.



EDIT : if you only want a basic Smoothwall, 4Gb HDD will be fine.

However, if you want to add on extra modules and so on, you'll need to look at a bigger virtual disk as Smoothwall logs everything. If one log cannot be rotated due to lack of space, it will cascade throughout the system, and you'll get a full HDD. Happened to me once before.

A rough rule of thumb is a gig of HDD space for every module added. YMMV though.

 

[iDOL]

iDOL - If going the virtual way, do make sure your HDD is >4Gb in size - otherwise logrotation won't work.

But it is possible & do work.



EDIT : if you only want a basic Smoothwall, 4Gb HDD will be fine.

However, if you want to add on extra modules and so on, you'll need to look at a bigger virtual disk as Smoothwall logs everything. If one log cannot be rotated due to lack of space, it will cascade throughout the system, and you'll get a full HDD. Happened to me once before.

A rough rule of thumb is a gig of HDD space for every module added. YMMV though.

Excellente, Thank you kindky will do.

It appears my intruder done some damage, trying to recover my main whs for now.

My VM is also down, as I will be re-working the total setup.