Re: [squid-users] transparent proxy with authentication

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 03:37:55 +0200 (CEST)

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Chin Kah Yi wrote:

> What if the design is changed from wccp to a redirection level7 switch such
> as foundry serveriron? L7 switch redirect http traffic to squids. Will this
> be able to design provide authentication from squid?

If you use a L7 load balancer with the clients configured for using the
load balanced address as proxy then proxy authentication will work fine.

> To prevent users from going directly to Internet, firewall will block their
> IP from http access direct to internet.

And if you instead of blocking NAT them to a web server exaplaining how to
set the proxy settings less support calls will be seen...

Regards
Henrik
Received on Wed Oct 26 2005 - 19:37:59 MDT

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