Topic: Net Access and Proxy Wish List

[Steve Leeke]

I have 3.1 installed on a P200 box (running side by side with a PII 266 dual processor running NT SBS also acting as a gateway for another net - I prefer e-smith!).

I am upgrading to e-smith 4.0.

I would like to see the following features:

1) User level control over access to the Internet (i.e. I want them to have access to the LAN resources, but not necessarily the 'net) - this is for a school.

2) Site level proxy control.  E.g. I want to allow users access to the net but only to go to a predefined list of sites, including *.edu type specifications, through the proxy server (Squid).

Both of these would seem to require a new level of control over the IP Masquerading at the gateway.  In the first case, denying outbound/inbound traffic to certain internal users.  In the second case, forcing traffic through SQUID and through a filter to control access.  MS Proxy provides this.

Are there RPMs that can be added to e-smith to accomplish this?

Thanks.

Steve

[Charlie Brady]

Steve Leeke wrote:

> Both of these would seem to require a new level of control over
> the IP Masquerading at the gateway.  In the first case, denying
> outbound/inbound traffic to certain internal users.  In the
> second case, forcing traffic through SQUID and through a filter
> to control access.  MS Proxy provides this.
>
> Are there RPMs that can be added to e-smith to accomplish this?

See ftp://ftp.e-smith.net/pub/e-smith/contrib/charlieb/.

The e-smith-transproxy RPM will force normal web traffic throught squid.

There is no cersorware add-on, but e-smith-sleezeball is an example of how to configure a URL filter into squid - sleezeball is configured to remove advertising banners in the example.

I hope this helps to point you in the right direction.

Charlie