Re: [squid-users] Mac Address logging

Hi,

At 08.19 19/06/2005, Wennie V. Lagmay wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>We are offering cable internet services, we are required to log every
>users which sites they visited on what specific time. I can enable NCSA
>authentication so that every one will required to log there user name and
>password, but for some reason we cannot require users to do so. Now is
>there a way to log a client cable modems mac address so that we will just
>create a simple program to match the cable modem mac address to the user
>name. In this manner there is no hassle to clients and at the same time we
>can log ther activity and identify them.

Not sure if this could be done:

Squid can use only MAC address of machine connected on the same physical
lan (or IP broadcast domain). This is an ARP protocol limitation.

Regards

Guido

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Received on Mon Jun 20 2005 - 12:20:48 MDT