Filtering network content based on User Subscription
Joe, Your best bet in this case is to place a appropriately sized firewall at the customer's site, i.e. Cisco PIX 501 - 515 series or SonicWall's equivalent and link it to a WebSense or N2H2 content filtering server at your NOC. the short version of how this works us The firewall sends the URL your customer is requesting to the filter server and the filter server tells the firewall whether to grant or deny access to the URL. Both products can be configured to fail hard or soft i.e. if the content server is down the firewall will either block all URL's or grant all URL's. Both products do what you want them to do right out of the box and can be tuned easily by your staff or the customer. Scott C. McGrath
Your best bet in this case is to place a appropriately sized firewall at the customer's site, i.e. Cisco PIX 501 - 515 series or SonicWall's equivalent and link it to a WebSense or N2H2 content filtering server at your NOC. [snip] Scott C. McGrath
Joe, Cisco's Content Engine can also do the functions that Scott mentioned, plus gives you the benefit of web caching. It's very feature-rich, and the command line looks a lot like IOS. You can configure it to FTP your whitelist of URLs, and set up user-specific or global time restrictions, which address a couple of your specs. For the latter, I think you need the Smart Filter module, which is not part of the basic Content Engine distribution.
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