Re: [squid-users] IP passthrough the cache

"Neil A. Hillard" wrote:
>
> Laurent,
>
> On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Laurent HENRY wrote:
> > To answer Neal, if the provider would want to accept my proxy all would be
> > easier you are right, but he insists on his system of per-IP licence !
> In that case, question him how he would handle a Unix box with multiple
> users (e.g. multiple X terminals served from it)... That would give the
> same problem.
>
> IP based security in this instance is too much hassle. Presumably you
> have to be on a permanent connection, dial-up users would not be able to
> access the service since most ISPs do not allocate static addresses...

And most corporate users are behind firewalls (or at least should be..)
which hide their internal IP addresses, only showing a single or handful
IP addresses for all users from the same corporation.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Fri Jan 24 2003 - 02:40:28 MST