Re: [squid-users] Blocking specific workstations under DHCP

Simple:

First possible solution is to create DHCP Reservation for the hosts.

Second is to authenticate your users... squid has a lot of authenticator
helpers.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Bryan" <sbryan@olmc.nsw.edu.au>
To: "Squid-Users" <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 4:15 PM
Subject: [squid-users] Blocking specific workstations under DHCP

> Hi all,
> We need to move our network to use DHCP and at the moment I have certain
> activities restricted to sepcific machines (eg webmail only on staff
> machines) I currently do this via the IP of the machines, is there a way
to
> do this via the workstation name (or a better way?). The workstations are
> all W2K, WindowsNT or WindowsXP.
>
> Have also just had a quick look at DansGuardian and it seems very good and
> easy to setup - took all of two minutes to download install and start
> running. Are others using this and how reliable is it in blocking
> undesireable material - in particular porn? I currently use acl rules in
> Squid, but the lists are getting very long and I suspect causing a
slowdown
> in web browsing...but blocking is important to us as we are a school. ( I
> understand that blocking is never going to be 100% effective and there
will
> always be some that slip through, but it is better than not doing
anything)
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> _________________________________________
> Simon Bryan
> IT Manager
> OLMC Parramata
> ICQ#: 137562751
> _________________________________________
>
Received on Fri Jul 05 2002 - 08:58:13 MDT