Help finding Net Filtering for a business network - Specific needs!

[Darth_Spud]

Hi all, I have been tasked with finding Net Filtering Software for a small network (8 machines + SBServer 2003) its a training suite so a lot of kids use it and we want the ability to block/unblock websites on individual client machines on the fly. The reason for this is when the kids have done their work we can then unblock Facebook/Bebo as a reward. I would prefer this to be done from one management console rather than having to go to each machine and block/unblock content. Are there any products out there that can do this?

[Jay]

for a very small network you could use an external filter such as webroot, if you are up for a little challenge I would use dansguardian or even maybe a decent router will the ability to block.

If its for training and kids it may be worth looking at a whitelist for sites rather than a blacklist.

[Darth_Spud]

The problem is that we don’t want them to be able to view certain sites until they have completed their work.

[mycarsavw]

Smoothwall on an older machine in between the router and the switch/network.

It comes with DansGuardian and gives timed access, whitelists, etc etc.

Excellent community behind it too.