What's the best Web content filter for managing client's on our network

We have a somewhat mini scale network. We have anywhere from 40 to 60 ranging from WLan and Lan devices. Right now we have been using opendns for content filtering but we would like to limit certain sites to just certain groups and if someone goes onto a site they shouldn't then what we would like to know is the IP of the user and there mac address If we could somehow find a captive portal software or hardware that would be perfect because it takes a lot of guess work out of things. We use Apple Wireless router's and run 2 server's one running Mac OSX Server 10.6.7 and a 2nd server running the same which act's as our OD replica
So my question is what do you guys use?
Were looking for the more user friendly the better and by that i mean I don't want to be using ww-rt on some router or something
Thank you for your time.

Johnny.Danger wrote:
We have a somewhat mini scale network. We have anywhere from 40 to 60 ranging from WLan and Lan devices. Right now we have been using opendns for content filtering but we would like to limit certain sites to just certain groups and if someone goes onto a site they shouldn't then what we would like to know is the IP of the user and there mac address If we could somehow find a captive portal software or hardware that would be perfect because it takes a lot of guess work out of things. We use Apple Wireless router's and run 2 server's one running Mac OSX Server 10.6.7 and a 2nd server running the same which act's as our OD replica
So my question is what do you guys use?
Were looking for the more user friendly the better and by that i mean I don't want to be using ww-rt on some router or something
Thank you for your time.
Have a look at Vicomsoft and their Intergate Inspect package. This runs on a Mac server and lets you link to Open Directory for authenticating users and lets you set filtering for users or for groups of users. Sounds exactly what you want.
See http://www.vicomsoft.com/products/filter/index.html

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