7200 router

[kendall-lynn]

I have 11 sites all tied in to the district office with 2600 routers. I would like some help on having the 7200 router route all traffice through the proxy server before it goes out to the internet...also any one know of good monitoring software I can go out and purchase please advise.

[faheyd]

Hi,

Try this site for info on proxy, firewall, etc:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Firewall-HOWTO.html

and of course for monitoring:

http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/mrtg.html

All of this is OpenSource or GPL software, you don't have pay any licensing fees to use the software (in general terms), your only cost is time and hardware, usually a server with two NICs, and processor of P2/450 or better.

First, read, read, read, then setup the proxy and firewall, then practice with your local network getting through the proxy. Then play/config the router to get traffic going where you want. Web proxy traffic will be config'd at the user workstations to go through the proxy server, and then you use an ACL to deny all http traffic that doesn't come from the proxy. If you read the above link on proxy and firewalling, things will become clear.