Smoothwall content filter with bluesocket wireless

[ICTNUT]

Right update:

 

I have setup one of the laptops to use the proxy.pac that smoothie has and I now have a valid block page coming from the smoothie when trying to access msn.

 

I would expect this to happen as the smoothie does not know what the unit it so it places it into the unauthenticated IPs group.

 

This group by default has a global block on it as we have found that if you install chrome or firefox you could surf the web unfiltered

 

So my next challenge is to try and get filtering to work, but it looks like we maybe moving forward.

[tom_newton]

Few quick updates:

Ric: you're correct - doing auth in transparent mode is impossible - for mere mortal beings. Of course we can do it (yes it is a nasty trick, and only works with ntlm so far)

 

Dave: you're right about the evils of squid and auth - thats why in FP5 (Summer '10) the all-new version of guardian will take over auth duty from squid, allowing all sorts of multi auth fun.

 

Of course you guys will all get these upgrades as standard.

you heard it here first

[ICTNUT]

ok so the proxy.pac file did not work after all, was just me being a little too eager

 

I guess there is no way to get this to work will have to reside to the fact that kids just can't surf the web via wireless.