[Fwd: [squid-users] Restricting users to access web w/o using SQUID]

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You are right, the Linux box is my gateway. Any pointer you want to throw in
as to how the iptables command you are recommending should look like and then
I will look up the actual syntax. Thanks in advance.

Mathieu MALAISE wrote:

> Hello,
>
> You should try to restrict the access using IPTABLES.
> I understand that your linux box in your gateway... if not
> restrict it in your firewall.
>
> Mathieu.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <shaheen@OpenNetbd.com>
> To: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 9:21 AM
> Subject: [squid-users] Restricting users to access web w/o using SQUID
>
> > Hi, I am seeing some users are bypassing the squid proxy servers by
> > going directly to the net. Any way to restrict this? They simply do not
> > have the proxy server mentioned in their browser and using the proxy
> > server as their default gateway (which has 2 NICs, one pvt other
> > public).
> >
> > I am running 2.4STABLE7 of SQUID on RH 7.3 and have the following
> > iptables commands in my rc.local file.
> >
> > /sbin/iptables -t nat -P POSTROUTING DROP
> > /sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
> >
> >
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Received on Thu Nov 07 2002 - 10:53:31 MST