Ancillary FW function: Filtering (mildly OT?) query

[John McDermott <jjm () jkintl com>]

Greetings,
I recently installed a firewall for a local start-up public school.  The 
hardware died and I replaced the box with an old PC and LEAF (Bearing). 
 The issue of content filtering came up. I do not want to start a 
political discussion about that!  I do have a technological question, 
though: if we decide that we do need some filtering in order to comply 
with governmental rules, what products are useful for a Linux-based FW 
(with mostly XP clients)?

The plan has been to use Dansguardian.  I can to that.  I was also 
wondering if there were something better.  I also wonder if there is 
something that requires less software.  Dansguardian needs apache and 
perl to display the (single) "you've been blocked" page.  I would like 
to display something, but a static page is fine for me.

Any suggestions on lightweight or heavyweight blocking sw I can use 
would help.

Thanks
--john
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John McDermott
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