On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 11:36 -0800, Scott Silva wrote: > on 2/1/2008 11:17 AM Gregory P. Ennis spake the following: > > 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 > I know that windows machines won't pick up any option like this from DHCP. You > have to use the proxy.pac which I could never get working quite right from > anything but a microsoft proxy server. A transparent filter works better > anyway, as your users will have a harder time bypassing it. > Scott, Thanks for the advice... the transparent filter works perfectly, and better than I planned. I could not find a starting place with the proxy.pac file for Linux either. Greg