Hello All

Anyone help me to configure mac based acl in squid. I am using Red Hat Linux 9. What is the procidure to configure mac based acl. Pls give me setp by setp information about mac based acl.

Any one in office configure the ip address of internet subnet and browse the net using the settings of proxy server. I want to give only 10 users the net connection so i want the mac binding through the squid proxy.

In this way my bandwidth will save and only authorized users will surf the net so i request you to give any help for this.

My Squid Proxy server Ip: 192.168.1.2
My Authorized Users Ip: 192.168.1.3 to 192.168.1.13

Note: The squid package is installed from rpm stub

Regards

Satish

As you are using RHE 9 it might not help you but still try below link if it works.

Courtesy : http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl

MAC address is only available 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 as the MAC is replaced by the router MAC when a packet is router.

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:

acl M1 arp 01:02:03:04:05:06
acl M2 arp 11:12:13:14:15:16
http_access allow M1
http_access allow M2
http_access deny all