Hi guys,

I have wifi network in office, but the router doesn't have muchs features like controlling sites or bandwidths etc...

I have one squid running in my environment. i need your help to share internet from squid to wifi router so that i can control sites bandwidth etc of wifi network.

configuring squid servers ip as gateway of wifi router doesnt' work since traffic doesn't go though squid. Please help me solve this issue.

thank you very in advance.

You can't control wifi with squid, they have nothing at all in common, and you know yourself there that squid is NOT a router. You would just need to block outbound traffic from the router unless it's coming from the squid IP, meaning all web requests will have to hit the squid box first. There are plenty of ways to make this more and more complicated, like separate vlans for either side of the squid box and doing transparent proxying on it etc, but for the basic results, you need to just stop outbound access by default on the router.

Hi acid_kewpie,

thanks for reply, you are right i was thinking about transparent proxy. I have one doubt and here is my plan.

1. i'll configure transparent proxy
2. ill give deafult gateway in wifi router as proxy ip.

so all the http requests hit proxy and will work am i right ? what about https://www.google.com will https requests also works ?

can u give let me know below line once again it is too brief for me.

thanks in advance.

If you want https proxying transparently, then you'll need sslbump to manage the SSL side of things. Transparency is very very very rarely what you think it's going to be though. I'd very strongly suggest you just explicitly configure proxy addresses. it's so much clearer and simpler. And there are ways to automate that side of things with proxy.pac files etc, the details of which you can provide by DHCP.