[TriLUG] limiting Internet access with squid?

[Kevin Flanagan]

If you can put a linux box inline to their internet connection you can do
the following.

- www.clarkconnect.org
    This can be a transparent proxy if it's inline.


There's a lot of other things that it could do as well, mail, ftp, web,
etc.

This is not a good solution for all, it seems that you may be dealing with
only one computer, if that's the case then the other solution with a WRT54G
seems to me to be better for this, but check out as many options and what
the real computing needs of the business are before thinking that you know.
Frequently there are many other needs that could be met, just aren't said on
the front end.



Kevin


On 3/19/07, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Problem: I have a client with a small network at a resturant.  His
> computer
> is XP Home so it can't be locked and he would like to restrict Internet
> access (when he isn't there his employees are surfing the web on the
> office
> computer, going to myspace.com, crap like that.  Can squid be set up block
> all request on port 80 and force users to authenticate before passing them
> along?  What I'd like is for Paul to have unrestricted access to the
> Internet but his employees to be blocked from going outbound.
>
> Is this possible with squid?  If not, do you have any other ideas?
>
> Greg
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