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RE: Filtering network content based on User Subscription

  • From: Mark Borchers
  • Date: Sat May 08 19:43:54 2004 
> 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.