On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 15:55 +0100, Phil Davey wrote: > On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Deepankar Chanda wrote: > > LTSP INTERNET RESTRICTION / ACCESS CONTROL: I WOULD LIKE LTSP.ORG / > > DEVELOPER TO ADDRESS THIS PROBLEM. IT IS A CRITICAL / ESSENTIAL FEATURE > > SPECIALLY IN A NETWORKED COLLEGE / SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT. > > Shouting (ie using all upper case) and posting multiple times is unlikely > to help get a response.
Totally with you on that. > >I want to give Internet access to some LTSP CLients based on their > >NIC/MAC address. Please give a solution to do this using Gateway and > >Domain-Name-Servers. > > Using LTSP, all programs (including the web browser) run *on the server* > and not on each desktop box. The result, as you've seen, is that all > internet access appears to be from the server. > > If you really want to be able to control internet access by mac address, > you need to run the web browser on each desktop box. This is possible > using LTSP, but not as easy and misses a lot of the reason to use LTSP in > the first place. > > The alternative is to run some kind of proxy/firewall that is based on the > username rather than the mac address. I've not tried this myself, but I've > seen it mentioned several times on this list. Try searching the archives > for 'squid'. We have made a firewall box ahead of the LTSP box and running squid on that gives all control features. An old P1/P2 is good enough. -- Sudev Barar Learning Linux ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
