On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 11:36 -0800, Scott Silva wrote:
> on 2/1/2008 11:17 AM Gregory P. Ennis spake the following:
> > 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
> I know that windows machines won't pick up any option like this from DHCP. You
> have to use the proxy.pac which I could never get working quite right from
> anything but a microsoft proxy server. A transparent filter works better
> anyway, as your users will have a harder time bypassing it.
>
Scott,
Thanks for the advice... the transparent filter works perfectly, and
better than I planned. I could not find a starting place with the
proxy.pac file for Linux either.
Greg
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