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Have you never tried Squid+squidguard.
I use to install it in the schools and biblios
Nico

 

http://www.marshal.com/webmarshal/

I used it in the past - did the job well, although to be honest I can't remember the pricing

 

I know that a lot of schools use a linux soultion using IPCOP which seems to work quite well.

BLOXX is one that I looked into here, but decided it wasn't needed purely on cost. It is a hardware soultion though, so you wouldn't need to install it onto one of your existing servers.

Smoothwall also seems to be a popular choice in schools.

 

AJ

Depends really on what route you want to go. Open Source there are lots of alternatives, but most require a high level of understanding of what you're doing. That said, I run Squid at home and its a doddle to set up. You'd obviously need something more robust and configurable for a school environment, since most of the little gits will spend hours attmepting to bypass your filters...

If you have the budget for it, I'd suggest SurfControl. It's what I use in my current role and, whilst it can be an utter nightmare retaining historical data when things go wrong (database crashes are a frickin nightmare) its very easy to get up and running and easy to fix when it does keel over.

 

There's only one thing that puts me off Surfcontrol - The amount of spam snail mail they send me!

 

You could try the Computer Associates eTrust eSCM [Secure Content Manager] as it is in use with tertiary colleges in Australia for the above reasons.

http://www.ca.com/us/products/product.aspx?id=4673