On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Sathishkumar M <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am in need of configuring squid proxy server just to block Internet for > specified machines in my network, content filtering and site blocking for > our institution in working hours. (Don't want to use the above facilities > from my router) In other times all machines can connect to Internet without > any restrictions. I am trying squid with Ubuntu 10.04 with two NICs in my > server. My Idea for network setup is > > Internet line ----> My Proxy server -----> My internal router ----> My > LAN machines. > > Is the setup is correct.
Yes this setup is not wrong at all. > If I keep my proxy server as one of the machine in my LAN like this > > Internet line ----> My router ----> LAN with proxy server. This is usually the preferred setup if you have a switch behind it. > Then I may need to configure proxy in all user's IE and firefox. and the > user's may change it when they need. so I think first method is correct. is > it? Not if you use transparent proxy. But, it can't handle https. Otherwise run your proxy server on port 80 and use that machine as the gateway. > My proxy server has two NICs in that I am trying to configure WAN in eth0 > and the connection to router is through eth1. so that nobody can connect to > Internet without proxy. > > How to do this? any idea. please help me. You should do some work on your own and come back if you're stuck at any point. Also, you might want to look at firmware like dd-wrt which would allow you to do this on the router itself. -- With Regards, Mehul Ved _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
