[squid-users] Re: arp auth from outside?

ARP acl checks only work for the local ethernet lan. If the user is behind a
router then the MAC address is that of the router.

What are you doing "from the outside"? Maybe there is better and more secure
solutions to your problem.

Regards
Henrik

On Thursday 13 December 2001 09.29, mohren wrote:
> Hi Henrik,
>
> proxy auth from outside sends the password in the clear all
> over the internet f... :-(.
>
> What about the MAC-address (arp). It works fine on the same
> sub-net, can't this be extended for travelling users with notebooks?
> The MAC is in the incoming Ether-packages or ?
>
> Werner Mohren
> System- and Networkmanager
> Research Center Ornithology of the Max Planck Society
> Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology
Received on Thu Dec 13 2001 - 05:54:27 MST