[TriLUG] Proxy Server.... Squid or something else?

[Matt Pusateri]

If you going to use squid, also look at SquidGuard and Sarg.  Sarg
will create basic web pages per day of who surfed what and what the
most popular sites where.

Matt P.


On Tue, December 6, 2005 6:28 pm, Kevin Flanagan wrote:
>  From the mix of clients it seems that you have some integration work
> cut out for you no matter what if you want good logging.
> Authenticated
> connections to the proxy are really the only good way to get logs back
> to "This user went to that site at that time" kind of logs.  You could
> just track IP addresses, if you have all assigned ones, if you DHCP
> things, you can't prove who did what.  Even if you have all static
> addressing, you don't have proof as to who was logged in.
>
>
> Squid can authenticate to an AD, I gather that it's a bit of work.
> You
> still have the Linux desktops that aren't likely all running SAMBA as
> domain members, or using that PAM for kerberos/LDAP auth to an AD.
>
> ISA can integrate well into an AD, but you still have the Linux users
> unauthenticated to the proxy.
>
>
>  From what I understand, you can do this well, it's just a fair bit of
> work.
>
>
>
> Kevin
>
> mark at thefowles.com wrote:
>> Squid and Dansguardian are good --
>>
>>
>>> Was thinking about putting in a Proxy server in our network to
>>> monitor
>>> interent usage as well as block internet sites that go against
>>> company
>>> policy.  This is a future *potential* project so I am open to any
>>> suggestions.  First ideas were Centos/Squid then maybe
>>> Windows2003-ISA
>>> (but
>>> I don't need the firewall functionality nor the cost).  My network
>>> is a
>>> mix
>>> of windows/AS400/Linux.  What do you all run?  Any help would be
>>> much
>>> appreciated.
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