Hi folks
Can anyone recommend a hardware firewall with reasonable content filtering to sit between my small home network (one or two wired machines and a wireless access point with one or two laptops) and the cable modem? If it did the wireless AP bit & router stuff in the same box that'd be most excellent! I'm in the UK, if that makes a difference to what is available.
My current (Belkin 801.11b wireless AP and 4-port switch) does basic firewall stuff and NAT with only occasional, irritating crashes - but it doesn't do content filtering. We've got three children who are just discovering the joys of the CBBC website, Bamzooki, Google and the rest... It'd be great to be able to set policies along the lines of: filter these URLs for the whole network, this content for the whole network, these URLs only for the kids machines, only allow ports 25 and 110 through to/from this machine, etc...
Would almost certainly be wanting a web-based interface, as my main machine, and from which I'd want to do the admin, is a Linux box - so no Windows-only clients...
Could do it manually on an old PC with IPCop, but that'd be noisy and take up too much space...
The advertising for a number of routers or APs say something like: "Content filtering with URL blocking and scheduling" (this is from a D-Link DIR-635;
Cheers
Colin