[CentOS] dhcp & squid

[Gregory P. Ennis]

On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 10:21 -0800, nate wrote:
> Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> > Everyone,
> >
> > I have set up squid as a proxy http server in order to filter web access
> > for an office that wants to block certain web sites.
> >
> > Is there a way to use the dhcpd server to assign the squid server and
> > port number 3128 to each Linux desktop when they boot using the existing
> > dhcpd server.  Or do I need to change each user's network preference
> > setup in firefox.   The dhcpd server and squid are on the same server.
> 
> Have you considered setting up squid as a transparent proxy so all
> HTTP requests go through it instead of configuring the clients to
> use the proxy? It'd be more secure anyways considering not everything
> has configuration to use a proxy.
> 
> nate
> 
Nate,

Thanks for the suggestion... that was a much easier approach.  There
were some previous posts in November of last year that had some good
references.  I have everything working as I had hoped.

I would still be interested to know if the dhcp servers could be used
for this kind of thing.

Greg