On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:01:13 -0300, "M. Rodrigo Monteiro" <falecom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi! > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 20:46, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Creating an external ACL to lookup the MAC and then logging the tag >> returned using the %et code. >> MAC handling is getting an upgrade for 3.2 which will hopefully include >> logging abilities. > > Does anyone use this? Yes. > What about the performance of this lookup? Quite slow for new visitors. The ext ACL caching helps a lot. But merely makes it a minor issue against the rest of Squid. Worse than performance is the frailty of the helpers needed to do the lookup. Part of the upgrade is dragging it out of the message pathway unless required, following the ident lookup example, so it does not affect message handling when needed routinely. Amos
