squid as a non caching proxy
 

Hello there,


I am looking for a web monitoring / url filtering solution and I have come across squid. The problem is that I have is that I don't want to cache the web sites that are accessed, as I have a 2 meg connect so bandwidth isn't a problem

so I was wondering if it is possible to have a squid server just blocking unwated websites and monitor who is on what web site at what time


Regards

Stephen

Have you looked into this?

DansGuardian

Thank you for the link DeadPenguin.


After reading the page I found squid guard, So the solution I am looking at going with is samba to connect to a Active Directory network, Squid-cache with the cache limit set to 0 and squid guard to block and web filter URL's


If anyone can see any problems with this please let me know


Thank you

I forgot to say before...Welcome to LQ.
Setup sounds good to me.

Blair

That is a great setup, although it lacks the caching which is Squids claim to fame, but as you said you don't need that anyway. Also have a look at privoxy. It is a pretty cool filtering proxy that doesn't cache, but your set-up above works well in my experience with it. Don't forget sarg and/or squint for access report generation. They show where the users are going and how much bandwidth they are using. Very nice apps.