> -----Original Message----- > From: Serassio Guido [mailto:guido.serassio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 10:20 AM > To: Wennie V. Lagmay; squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Mac Address logging > > > Hi, > > At 08.19 19/06/2005, Wennie V. Lagmay wrote: > >>Hi all, >> >>We are offering cable internet services, we are required to log every >>users which sites they visited on what specific time. I can enable NCSA >>authentication so that every one will required to log there user name and >>password, but for some reason we cannot require users to do so. Now is >>there a way to log a client cable modems mac address so that we will just >>create a simple program to match the cable modem mac address to the user >>name. In this manner there is no hassle to clients and at the same time we >>can log ther activity and identify them. > > Not sure if this could be done: > > Squid can use only MAC address of machine connected on the same physical > lan (or IP broadcast domain). This is an ARP protocol limitation. > > Regards > > Guido On the other hand, in theory an external ACL could correlate the client IP to a cable modem MAC and/or user and return "OK user=" which would provide the username to the logs... It all depends on your Cable Modem management setup. Chris
