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[Antony Stone]

On Saturday 12 December 2020 at 14:03:23, sampei02 at tiscali.it wrote:

> What Squid mechanism do you suggest me to identify the “computer name” ?
> What solution/corretion can I make to my environment to apply my idea?

A few suggestions:

1. Why not get your DHCP server to allocate IP addresses according to MAC 
address; then your clients will get fixed addresses again and you can use those 
in your ACLs.

2. Alternatively, get your DHCP server to update a local DNS server, and point 
Squid at that so that it can look up the names of the PCs in DNS (without 
needing to know about NetBIOS) and you can use those.

3. Get your users to authenticate to Squid as people, not as computers; then 
you can apply the appropriate rules for who is trying to do stuff instead of 
assuming who is using which computer.

4. Why have you switched from static addressing to DHCP?  If you need DHCP to 
cater for machines which "temporarily visit" your network, how about just 
allocating a subnet range for those and continue to use static addresses for 
the machines you know about?


Regards,


Antony.

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