Quoting Jim Streit <jimstreit at northlans.com>: > I'm getting a new 10 mb fiber internet connection. I would like to use > Linux as a proxy server for my employees. (my crrent proxy, windows based > is too slow for this larger connection, besides its time for an upgrade) > > Anyone have any recommendations for a proxy that is capable of ... > - Surfing (duh) > - Tracking. I want to see who goes where and for how long ... > - Reporting. Be able to create reports showing who went where ... > - Site blocking. I want to prevent users from accessing certain sites > based on catagories. > > Any suggestions would be great. > > Thanks > Jim Streit > Squid rocks, http://www.squid-cache.org. It's fairly easy to set up, I've got it running such that it only allows access to a certain set of about 50 sites, the users I'm using it on have a fairly restrictive Internet policy, so that is cool. If you need to black list large numbers of sites, i.e. block all pr0n, that could get burdensome as it would require adding every existing pr0n site into a blacklist. ISTR a project somewhere creating open source black lists for exactly this type of purpose, but I'm blanking on it right now... ahh a quick google tells me to look for Squidguard, and here is a cool article at the Linux Journal about using open source to do proxying: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6807 Anyway, it's fairly easy to do reporting by writing some scripts to check the squid logs. HTH, Josh ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list