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Introduction
Advanced Proxy is an add-on module for the popular Linux based firewall distributions
IPCop and SmoothWall, extending their web proxy
functionality with a lot of versatile and useful additional features.
The package contains a squid binary recompiled with advanced configuration options for maximum flexibility.
The Advanced Proxy graphical user interface gives you access to much more settings than the built-in proxy GUI does.
Key features of Advanced Proxy
- Seamless GUI integration for advanced web proxy configuration
- Local user authentication including group based user management
- identd (RFC 1413) authentication
- LDAP authentication including Active Directory, eDirectory and OpenLDAP
- Windows authentication including native Windows domains and Samba
- RADIUS authentication
- Extended cache management
- Web access control by IP and MAC addresses
- Download throttling
- Time based access restrictions
- Classroom extensions for supervising web access by classrooms
- MIME type filter
- Blocking of unauthorized browsers or client software
- Automatic client configuration support (PAC and WPAD)
News
2011-05-09: Advanced Proxy 3.0.6 for IPCop 1.4 and SmoothWall 3.0 available for download.
2008 October: Support and development for Advanced Proxy on SmoothWall 2.0 has been discontinued
Important notice regarding email support requests:
People who sent me emails in the past probably noticed that I am not responsive to mails related to support requests or questions already covered by the docs. Please try to read the docs first. Thank you for being appreciative!
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