Re: [SLUG] Enforcing proxy use

[Stephan Borg <osgiliath@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I read somewhere once, that using IPChains (or IPTables), you could
redirect all IP traffic through Squid for security/proxy.

Sorry, can't give anymore details, but thought I'd mention it.

Stephan

On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 18:43, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Richard Hayes wrote:
> 
> > A organisation has public access terminals connected to a Telstra cable 
> > connection.  They use a Netgear router that  allocates a 192.168.0.x DHCP 
> > address on every client login.
> > 
> > There is no filtering on the services.
> > 
> > Using Squidguard (or similar) how can you enforce using the proxy?
> 
> You can't.  Unless you can stop connections to port 80 to addresses outside
> the local network, people can just connect to wherever they please.
> 
> Get rid of the Netgear router, and put a Linux firewall/router/DHCP server
> in there instead.  If you're really squeezed for machines (can't afford a
> 486?) then put the Squidguard machine in as the router.
> 
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