On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 10:11, fooler wrote:
> 
> be sure that the final gateway before going on the net is the one
> responsible dropping the packets... so its either your linux box or your
> router

Yeah.

> let the ip firewall handle this... since you are planning to drop all the
> packets, be sure also to allow udp port 53 (dns) if it is applicable to your
> needs

Ok.

> let squid's acl handle this... but take note, filtering thru mac address is
> only good if the workstations are on the same subnet...  you mentioned above
> that there are hundreds of users in metro manila... i assume that those
> users are on the different subnet... therefore, filtering thru mac address
> is not applicable... you must filter this thru ip address plus added
> security by using login authentication thru squid...

We only have ONE subnet.  Naka-RIP kami all over the Philippines (I
think).

Actually, useless na naman itong ginagawa ko dito.  As usual, they
insist to use their RedHat Linux 7.2 (INSTALL EVERYTHING W/OUT ANY
UPDATES UNTIL NOW!) installation with Squid Proxy kasi gumagana pa naman
daw eh at natatanggal naman daw ang virus sa mga workstations. 
Nakaka-inis talaga!  =(

Thank you very much.

Marvin

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