>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Dowling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Chris> sorry about that word crap. here it is again: Well, webboy is
Chris> written by a software company called NDG software
Chris> (www.ndgsoftware.com). webboy is designed specifically for
Chris> monitoring web traffic. they've got some other apps to, all in the
Chris> interests of network maintenence.
WebBoy is commercial and only available for WinBlows. I'm really looking for
an open source solution that will work on my Linux firewall to monitor the
entire network that's behind it.
Chris> about the invisable proxy stuff, I'm not sure. I haven't tried it
Chris> (yet, it is a project for the crissy break). I believe that there
Chris> is a howto about the specifics, but I'm sure that you can achieve
Chris> it with any old proxy software (eg: squid) and ipchains. It seems
Chris> that all you need to do is to redirect all traffic (bar that
Chris> coming from the proxy host itself) going out on port 80 to the the
Chris> listening port of the proxy. All that is required then is to view
Chris> the proxy logs to see what ppl are looking at (tail -f works
Chris> well).
I think I really like this idea. I can set up squid and use ipchains to
automatically route all output via squid. This would mean that I do not even
have to modify each machine's browser configuration to specify a proxy!
I fiddled a bit with squid, installing it via the RH 6.1 rpm. As soon as I
installed it, it stopped letting me access the web! I uninstalled it for the
time being but will try it again soon. Any idea if there's any sort of
utility that will neatly summarize squid's logs so that I can see who
accessed what?
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