RE: [squid-users] Mac Address logging

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Serassio Guido [mailto:guido.serassio@acmeconsulting.it]
> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 10:20 AM
> To: Wennie V. Lagmay; squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: 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

On the other hand, in theory an external ACL could correlate the client IP
to a cable modem MAC and/or user and return "OK user=" which would provide
the username to the logs... It all depends on your Cable Modem management
setup.

Chris
Received on Mon Jun 20 2005 - 12:40:14 MDT