WWW Proxy/Traffic Analyzer

[Chuck Swiger]

On Jan 10, 2007, at 8:00 AM, Tom Grove wrote:
> We have an employee who spends quite a bit of time on the net and  
> currently have no way of analyzing where they go.  Are there any  
> decent proxy servers that I can put them on to see where they are  
> going?

Squid is a popular proxy server, although mod_proxy for Apache is  
another choice.  However, you can analyze where someone is "going" on  
the net much more easily using a packet sniffer like tcpdump.

However, this sort of issue is a management issue, not a technology  
problem.  If the employee is getting their work done and meeting  
their deadlines, there probably isn't a problem worth pursuing.   
Otherwise, the issue is that this person isn't getting the work done,  
and whether they are surfing random pages or wasting time in some  
other fashion  doesn't particularly matter....

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-Chuck