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#HOW TO ADD INTERNET FILTERING SOFTWARE TO COMPUTER ITSELF HOW TO#
#HOW TO ADD INTERNET FILTERING SOFTWARE TO COMPUTER ITSELF INSTALL#
#HOW TO ADD INTERNET FILTERING SOFTWARE TO COMPUTER ITSELF UPDATE#

We will use Squid as caching and filtering proxy that runs on our Proxy Server.

#HOW TO ADD INTERNET FILTERING SOFTWARE TO COMPUTER ITSELF UPDATE#

So type yum update in the root terminal and reboot the server after update completes. After restart, confirm that the network functions correctly by typing in the terminal (there should not be any errors in the outputs on these commands): $ping -c 3 192.168.1.1 $nslookup īefore we do any further installation it is recommended to update the freshly installed system with the latest security patches that may have come out after the ISO has been released. Restart your network subsystem by typing /etc/init.d/network restart in the root terminal or by just restarting the server.

Adjust DNS resolve settings in /etc/nf by adding IP address of the DNS server that runs on router:.

Set default gateway settings in /etc/sysconfig/network configuration file by adding this line:.

Assign a static IP address of 192.168.1.2 with network mask 255.255.255.0 to our proxy server by modifying startup script /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0.

In order to enable network access, we need to perform the following. The installed version of CentOS usually does not have network connectivity enabled by default. Wait until the installation is complete and then reboot the system. Configure machine hostname as “proxy” and root password as (without quotation marks).

#HOW TO ADD INTERNET FILTERING SOFTWARE TO COMPUTER ITSELF INSTALL#

Burn it on a spare CD, insert into your server’s CD drive and power it on.įollow the installation steps accepting the defaults or customizing the required parts of the install according to your needs. In order to install CentOS Linux, go to and download the image file. It is also possible to use RedHat Linux 6.2 with paid subscription if you need a guaranteed level of support for your servers. Our proxy server will be built using free version of CentOS Linux 6.2. In this tutorial, I will assume that the network environment consists of a SOHO level router that distributes wireless Wi-Fi, several desktop and laptop computers, iPads, and some mobile smart phones as shown on the following network diagram. Our goal is to set up a free, Linux-based server running Squid and deploy a web filtering application on it in order to save bandwidth, speed up web access, and block offensive and potentially illegal or malicious web files.

#HOW TO ADD INTERNET FILTERING SOFTWARE TO COMPUTER ITSELF HOW TO#

This HOWTO describes how to protect your home or small enterprise network users from objectionable Internet content with help of HTTP proxy. Guest contributor Rafael Akchurin of QuintoLabs presents this how-to article on setting up web content filtering on Squid Proxy. How to set up web filtering solution on Squid Proxy