Re: [squid-users] Bypassing squid proxy

Thanks colin, Thanks for your suggestion.

Immediately I will implement bandwidth restriction for those users. We MIS
people have to convince Management to have a policy for Internet access in
office environment.

regards
rajeev
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Campbell" <sgcccdc@citec.qld.gov.au>
To: "H M Rajeev" <hmrajeev@ybil.com>
Cc: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 3:44 AM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Bypassing squid proxy

> Hi,
>
> As others have pointed out, you have a social problem that cannot be
> solved by technology. All that happens when you do is that you get into a
> race. You do something, they find a way around it. Someone suggested that
> you can rate limit by user. Try that. Squid allows you to set a limit on
> how much bandwidth a user can use. That won't stop people sharing but the
> reduced throughput might annoy them enough to stop them. Afterall, if I
> share my access with you and that sharing makes my access slower, I might
> just change my mind.
>
> As I suggested yesterday, you could also limit the number of simultaneous
> connections. Again, that is just slowing them down. All you can really do
> is to annoy them enough to make them want to stop.
>
> If you enable user agent logging, you might be able to see who's using a
> browser and who's using a proxy. Once the users find out though they can
> probably change what the proxy sends - squid has that functionality.
>
> Having said all that, all I can do is reiterate what others have said.
> It's a management problem. Management must sort it out. If users won't
> permit the IT department to audit their computers you have a real problem
> that's way bigger than rogue proxy users.
>
> Colin
Received on Wed Mar 06 2002 - 22:21:48 MST