How do I use pfSense squidGuard?
SquidGuard can be installed using the pfSense package manager. To access the package manager, click on packages in the system menu. Select the available packages tab and scroll down until you find SquidGuard, then click the plus symbol next to the description to begin the installation.
How do you squidGuard?
Configure the squidGuard Package
- Open General settings tab. Check the Enable box to activate the package.
- Open Common ACL page. Click Target Rules List to show defined blacklists and target categories.
- After settings are complete, return to the General Settings tab and press Apply.
How do I install squidGuard?
Installing squidGuard
- Unpack the source. tar xvzf squidGuard-1.2.1.tar.gz.
- Compiling. Let’s assume it is squidGuard-1.2.1 we are trying to install:
- Installing. su – make install.
- Installing the blacklists. Copy your blacklists into the desired blacklist directory (default: /usr/local/squidGuard/db) and unpack them.
What are Squid and squidGuard packages for?
The SquidGuard package is a plug-in for Squid and is used for access control based on a URL or a domain. It can be configured to block or allow the traffic, based on client or destination.
What is LightSquid?
LightSquid is a Squid log analyzer that runs on pfSense. By parsing through the proxy access logs, the package is able to produce web-based reports that detail the URLs accessed by each user on the network. Users on the network have no way of knowing their traffic is being logged and analyzed using this method.
How do I block social media on pfSense?
pfSense – How to block websites with Pfsense
- Set Proxy interface to LAN.
- Check Allow users on interface.
- Check Transparent Proxy.
- Make sure Log store directory has/var/squid/log (or other)
- Proxy port: 3128 (or other)
- Hit the Save button at the end of the page.
What can t squidGuard do?
What Can / Cannot I use SquidGuard For? squidGuard can be used to: limit the allowed web access for some users to a list of accepted/well known web servers and/or URLs only, while denying access to other blacklisted web servers and/or URLs.
What squid guard Cannot do?
How do I run Lightparser PL?
The steps for OPNSense are:
- Install the package.
- Go to /usr/local/etc/lightsquid/lightsquid.cfg and change the path of access.log to /var/log/squid/access.log.
- Run /usr/local/www/lightsquid/lightparser.pl, the first time with access.log.*.gz too:
How do I check my pfSense bandwidth?
Monitoring Bandwidth Usage
- pftop. If a connection is currently active, connect to the pfSense router’s console (physical access or ssh) and watch the traffic flow with pftop (Option 9 ).
- iftop.
- trafshow.
- Built-in Graphs.
- BandwidthD.
- Darkstat.
- ntopng.
- Monitoring on Multiple Interfaces.
How much does pfSense cost?
Full firewall/VPN/router functionality all in one available in the cloud starting at $0.08/hr.
How to install SquidGuard with Squid proxy server?
Install SquidGuard. We first need to install squid on our system. If you have not done it already, install squid with the following command, # yum install squid. Now install squidguard with the following command, # yum install squidGuard. Note:- Mind the uppercase ‘G’ in squidGuard.
What can you do with squid and SquidGuard?
You can do a whole lot of things with squid and squidGuard. Both these tools are free, extremely fast, flexible and secure. If you are a system administrator and looking to manage the network of small to medium scale, you got no better option than Squid. Hope you enjoyed this article!
Can you install SquidGuard on Linux or RHEL?
SquidGuard can be installed on Linux as well as Unix. The package to install SquidGuard is not available with default Centos/RHEL repos, we need to enable the EPEL repository on our system to install squidguard.
How to check squid service has been started?
Verify that squid service has been started fine by using the following netstat command. In case of successful start, it should show output as below. That’s it, squid has been installed successfully now. Let’s go ahead with squidGuard installation. SquidGuard needs CentOS Yum’s epel repositories to be enabled.
