actually, your partly correct, what surf control does is, when it see's the ip address x.x.x.x requesting page from site xxx, it doesn't actually block it, it interjects, and replies to the workstation before the actual site does, this works pretty well, and since workstation thinks it already got the page it rejects the real one when it comes in, i may not be explaining it quite right, but thats the idea. AND, you don't have to tell the workstations to go thru a proxy, it is basically plug and play, without workstation intervention, as long as you put it in the right place on the wire where it can see all the traffic. it does work, the problem i have seen is that sometimes a page gets thru the first time it is visited, think of playboy . com the first time any workstation visits that page, it will likely go thru, although any future request from any other workstation will be intercepted, however, ususally even that first page that starts coming thru to the workstation usually doesn't fully load it gets intercepted at some point in the page. hope that explains it well.
Don -----Original Message----- From: Chris Wilkes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 10:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Setting up a Proxy Server.. On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Oswald wrote: > Hi! We have one Windows 2000 server and 30 Windows 98 client machines > connected directly to a switch. We connect to the net using a D-Link DI 300 > ISDN Router which also serves as NAT. We are connected to the net using a > 64 Kbps dial-up ISDN connection. > > We are planning to implement SurfControl in our office to monitor the web > usage of our employees. Since the internet requests from all the machines > goes directly via the switch to the router, this software is not able to > track any requests. > > Would be thankful if somebody can help me understand setting up a proxy > server in this network setup. >From this page http://www.surfcontrol.com/products/superscout_for_business/super_scout/pass .html it looks like SurfControl just sits there and sniffs the network for traffic going by and reports on it. Somewhat nifty actually. You'll need to get their "SuperScout for Microsoft Proxy Server" to do the proxying bit you will actually need to block requests by your users. The pass-by one can't actually block anything. With a proxy server you'll then have each client go through it to get out to the internet. Its a setting called "Proxy server" for the browsers. However to get this to fully work you'll also have to get a firewall that you control and tell it to drop all outbound HTTP (port 80) requests. Otherwise the users can just ignore going through the proxy. I don't know if the D-Link router can do that, it might be able to. Chris
