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Opendns updater router filtering10/24/2022 ![]()
Then I made a backup of my /etc/network/interfaces file and replaced it with this one: #OPENDNS UPDATER ROUTER FILTERING INSTALL#First install the bridge-utils package: sudo apt-get install bridge-utils Get the Ubuntu server acting as a transparent bridge The configuration of the server to provide what I required can be broken down into several steps. The Ubuntu server now sits between the home LAN and the broadband router rather than as just another network node on the LAN as it was before. I never did get Untangle working on it, but now it seemed like a good device to use to do some filtering… There are loads of instructions on the Internet about using Squid & Dansguardian but none covered quite what I wanted to achieve: A dhcp serving, bridging, transparent proxy content filter.Īrchitecturally, my network needed to look like this:Īs you can see above, the physical change is rather negligible. It’s mainly used as a central backup controller and dlna media store/server for the house. The Ubuntu 12.04 Server is called vimes (after Commander Vimes in the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett) and is still running the same hardware that I described way back in 2007! It’s a low power VIA C7 processor, 1G of RAM and it now has a couple of Terabytes of disk. The BT Router is providing the DHCP service in the above diagram. With the above in mind I set about thinking how I could provide a degree of security on our home network using tried and trusted Open Source tools…įirstly this is how our networked looked before.
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