Hi Shawn,

Monday, June 26, 2006, 10:16:40 AM, you wrote:

> yes, you could set up your own community gateway and set up your own filtering
> rules on the gateway.. however, this would require some knowledge in
> networking and firewall configuration.. 

> it's relatively inexpensive as you can just use any old computer as a
> gateway.. install a special firewall linux distribution like 
> http://www.smoothwall.org/.. configure it to block everything except approved
> sites..

> then, you'd just need to make sure that all community traffic flows through
> this gateway..

Tim explained this setup to me offlist - thanks Tim! It does eliminate
the need for a SonicWall or similar device - but it may be hard to
find someone at each colony capable of setting it up. I'll look into
it as well.

I'm still, perhaps unrealistically, still hoping for an ISP-based
solution. Since we are multi-family farms, we have young boys; some of
them know far more about the computer than their parents, and because
of them, the parents would prefer to have the Internet filtered before
it arrives on the place.

-- 
Best regards,
Patrick Murphy
James Valley Colony
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