Dean Michael Berris advised is right, squid is good choice for client surfing on internet and you can use webalizer and sarg for client statistic and reports. You can also block non-work related sites through squid. If you'd like to monitor your client you have create user account on squid. We've been successfully deploy squid in replacement of micro$soft proxy 2 server.
God bless and have a nice day.
fyi,
Al
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ramon,
as you might already know, masquerading occurs at a lower level than
squid (because squid is an appplication layer service, while
masquerading is a network layer service). these two technologies offer
different services, and a comparison between them would be pointless.
however, like how tiger has mentioned, it depends on what you actually
want to let the clients do. if you want to allow them (the clients) to
be able to send and recieve arbitrary packets to and from the internet,
then masquerading is fine. however, if you just want them to be able to
surf the net, then disabling masquerading and putting in squid instead
would be a wise decision.
squid allows you to cache the data the clients are requesting, allowing
for a more pleasant browsing experience (expecially if they go to the
same site over and over). it also allows you to find out which sites
they have been going to, as well as how much they use the web service
available to them. you can gather per client statistics, and do
something useful with it.
however, it all boils down to what you really want them to be able to
do. a mix would be nice, and as how tiger has mentioned, you have a lot
of alternatives and cases.
HTH.
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 21:58, Ramon de los Reyes wrote:
> good day,
>
> we have been using masquerading to allow our
> workstation to surf the internet. my friend suggested
> that we should use squid instead.
>
> my question is which is better? any point / link to
> explain the difference/advantage is highly
> appreciated.
>
> thanks,
>
> ramon
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