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. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080201/9b0dcbd2/attachment-0005.sig>