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you can assign my mac address so regardless of the IP address if the mac address is unique per computer....
so if your mac is XX:XX:XX:XX and you're on a dialup modem, you'll probably get a different IP every time you dialup but the mac address will stay the same... it's for security...
Yes, you can setup squid to allow the internet acces by mac address.
NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on the same subnet. If the client is on a different subnet, then Squid can not find out its MAC address.
To use ARP (MAC) access controls, you first need to compile in the optional code. Do this with the --enable-arp-acl configure option:
% ./configure --enable-arp-acl ...
% make clean
% make
If src/acl.c doesn't compile, then ARP ACLs are probably not supported on your system.
If everything compiles, then you can add some ARP ACL lines to your squid.conf:
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