Lightspeed Filtering and iOS 8?
Something I've noticed with regards to the Lightspeed web filter is that iOS 8+ devices cannot update or download apps from the app store. I've tried unblocking the following in URL Patterns:...
View ArticleInternet issues this morning for lots of ISP's
Morning all, I've seen a few threads ref Internet outages today regarding numerous ISP's. Just to let you know Talk Talk Wholesale have had a major outage affecting lots of ISP's and direct customers...
View Article30mb Virgin Media Lease Line - Overkill?
Need some advice, we have a primary school with a standard ADSL 15mb internet connection - it struggling to cope with the traffic of around 65 computers accessing it (as you would expect) FTTC is not...
View ArticleAnyone know a way to discover machines running torrent clients via my LAN?
Hey all, Got far too many hits on our Smoothwall box on port 6881 - leads me to believe there are machines on my LAN running torrent clients that are trying to connect. Anyone know a way to find...
View ArticleSmoothwall - Quote/Licensing Query
Evening guys, Been looking at alternatives to replace the old ISA box that's sitting at my new job and got a quote from a reseller for Smoothwall and was wondering what the items on the quote...
View ArticlepfSense - 1:1 NAT
Hello everyone, I am currently in the process of getting my head around pfSense and doing some testing with it before we deploy it onto our network. However, we would like it for external users to...
View ArticleDigg. Suitable For Students?
Hi folks, We've had the request to unblock Digg.com for students (11-16 years old). As far as I can see it's a news site, albeit one with a social element to it. Does it play host to anything...
View ArticleInternet Issues
Hi all, Got Internet issues here. What baffles me is a the servers and a couple of PCs are okay. We recently moved ISP and I have changed all the settings etc. Google Chrome's error is ERROR CODE...
View ArticleMigrate Mdaemon to Google
Has any done this as yet with hundreds of users? What instructions did you follow? Any advice would be grateful....Thanks
View ArticleEasiest transparent proxy to setup? Just need it for the iPads and Guest access.
Looking to setup something that will capture all web traffic from devices that arnt setup to use the proxy and diverts it through a proxy. Ive tried setting one up before in my training days and found...
View Articlepfsense - filtering/LEA proxy
Hi all, First post, been lurking for too long! I am thinking about using pfsense to move my school of the LEA assigned ip range so we can tidy it up a bit and prepare ourselves if we ever want to...
View ArticleMicrosoft scrapping IE
Microsoft is scrapping Internet Explorer – Quartz (http://a.msn.com/r/2/BBikIbm?a=1&m=EN-GB)
View ArticleWPAD (PAC) & DHCP Problems
So yesterday I got annoyed with applying proxy settings and made a wpad file. This worked fantasically using DHCP until I realised that I had applied the wpad to the wrong vlan on dhcp resulting in all...
View ArticleSmoothWall Alternatives? - Been asked to do an "Procurement Exercise"
Our Smoothwall is up for renewal this year and the licence changes from Device to User have left a bad taste with the management in that we were been strong armed into early signup to keep our...
View ArticleYoutube Safesearch
Hi Guys Has anyone else noticed a change with Youtube when it comes to Safesearch. We are signed up with Google to make sure that searches are filtered, however it seems youtube may have now been...
View ArticleIPConfig Blocked by ISP
We are using a new scheme of work which has a unit which asks you to run a IPConfig command, however the results are being blocked by the LEA ISP. We have asked them to allow this so we can run the...
View ArticleYoutube Safety Mode
Does anyone else find Youtube safety mode to be overly aggressive ? I have Enable Safe Browsing and Force Safesearch set with a GPO for Chrome and Smoothwall has Enable Google Safe Search and Force...
View ArticleWatchguard FireCluster
We have two Watchguard devices for DR purposes. When the two cluster interface ports are connected together via a X-over cable in the same location this works fine and is picked up by the Watchguard...
View ArticleWhat level do you filter to?
So, a question that is currently being batted around here is - what is acceptable for kids to see and what isn't? Where do we draw the line when filtering? The more we want to filter makes it more...
View ArticlepfSense Rules
Any able to share their baseline pfsense rules at all? Any suggestions on packages to run within it? what works well etc. Thanks
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