On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 10:21 -0800, nate wrote:
> Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> > Everyone,
> >
> > I have set up squid as a proxy http server in order to filter web access
> > for an office that wants to block certain web sites.
> >
> > Is there a way to use the dhcpd server to assign the squid server and
> > port number 3128 to each Linux desktop when they boot using the existing
> > dhcpd server. Or do I need to change each user's network preference
> > setup in firefox. The dhcpd server and squid are on the same server.
>
> Have you considered setting up squid as a transparent proxy so all
> HTTP requests go through it instead of configuring the clients to
> use the proxy? It'd be more secure anyways considering not everything
> has configuration to use a proxy.
>
> nate
>
Nate,
Thanks for the suggestion... that was a much easier approach. There
were some previous posts in November of last year that had some good
references. I have everything working as I had hoped.
I would still be interested to know if the dhcp servers could be used
for this kind of thing.
Greg
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