Enforcing content filtering with PIX515E

["Ian Rarity" <Ian.Rarity () espc com>]

Hi all,

Apologies if this is dumb, obvious or both, but I've never had to get a
firewall to do this before.  We've just signed up with SurfControl to
provide us with content filtering for our web users.
Actually getting all the various versions of various browsers on our
network to use it as their proxy server is proving problematic; each
version of IE seems to store the proxy URL in a different registry key. 
Also, thanks to our IT policy (or lack thereof), there's not much we can
do to prevent users simply removing the proxy setting in their browsers
and looking at whatever sites they please.
So I thought I'd try reconfiguring our firewall to send any outgoing
traffic on port 80 to the IP/port that SurfControl gave us.  The
access-list for the inside interface on the PIX currently reads:

access-list acl_in permit icmp any any 
access-list acl_in permit ip any any 

In other words, anything on the inside interface is allowed to access
anywhere.  Am I right in thinking that to force outgoing port 80 traffic
in the direction of SurfControl, I'd need to add a line to acl_in along
these lines:

access-list acl_in permit any host 80 <surfcontrol's IP> 8081

Would this suffice, or do I need something more involved?

Thanks,
Ian.

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Ian Rarity
Technical Engineer
ESPC (UK) Ltd.



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