Re: [squid-users] Mac Address logging

If you control the DHCP server then you already have a mapping of MAC/IP
from it.
Now you just need to get on writing some script to map the IP from the Squid
logfiles to the IP/MAC from DHCP and then map it to your user DB.

>From: Serassio Guido <guido.serassio@acmeconsulting.it>
>To: "Wennie V. Lagmay"
><wlagmay@yanbulink.net>,<squid-users@squid-cache.org>
>Subject: Re: [squid-users] Mac Address logging Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005
>20:19:52 +0200
>
>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 - 12:49:58 MDT