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