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Installation and Upgrades / Re: content filtering

« on: December 19, 2007, 11:46:02 pm »

paulk911:
  You can activate the transaprent proxy using the checkbox under the 'General Settings' heading. Remember to  enable the HTTP proxy service or you will not get nothing.
  To enable content filtering you must go to HTTP Proxy->Filter Settings. In those page you can change the threshold of the content filtering (by default is disabled)

Cheers,
  Javier

Here's how it works! As I said in my original quote I thought that something was missing to activate the transparent proxy and indeed I was correct! 

I thought to try a different browser. I was using IE7 to access the ebox system and while most things worked this did not. I tried a different client system with W2K and IE6 with disasterous results getting an error page with something like "A very nasty bug has occured!" I downloaded and installed FireFox 2.0.0.11 and the extra "Change" button I was expecting was there below the Defalut Policy listbox! Now I can change things. 

So there is an additional step beyond the Click on the Transparent Proxy checkbox in that the lower Change button needs to be pressed then the Save Changes process needs to be followed.

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: content filtering

« on: December 19, 2007, 11:13:23 pm »

Thanks Javi,
I tried that and it works and shows the correct default gateway. I have always used the "route" command which shows similar information but the default route does not show there. I am happy that this is set correctly since as I said the proxy server is working.

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: content filtering

« on: December 19, 2007, 07:41:46 am »

Hi,

Great product you have developed. I have been experimenting with ebox with the primary intent of using it for Content Filtering. I have it up and running using VMWare Server 1.04 with two (2) separately bridged network cards in order to allow the simulation of a proper network gateway and have Transparent Proxying available. I am using ebox_installer 0.11.2.

I have it working with the following enabled, running and apparently working

• NTP local server
• HTTP Proxy
• DNS

The problem is that I can not enable the Transparent Proxy or the Content Filter to become enabled. I found a recommended installation how-to but it is for ebox 0.7 so things may have changed. (http://www.howtoforge.com/debian_ebox)

Page 4 shows a picture of the HTTP Proxy setup with what is possibly an Apply button under the Global Policy selection box (http://images.howtoforge.com/images/debian_ebox/30.png) but this is not available on my version.

The transparent Proxy Enable/Disable selection box has been replaced by a simple checkbox in this new version as well. Also the sub-options under the left hand menu have different options.

Can anyone hlep? How do I activate both the Transparent Proxy and the Content Filter?

Thanks in advance.
Paul K

BTW: The DHCP Server doesn't seem to work either.
Installation: I had problems with the installation starting with the DHCP Client saying it sucessfully acquired an address but no Default Gateway. I preservered without and eventually manually added IP addresses and Gateways to the two ethernet cards for initialisation. I added a Gateway using ebox but the routing table while working for the client machine is wrong showing no Default Gateway at the Linux command line (route command) just the two local networks.