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Use squid to track http requests of machines in your LAN

The key is to set up a squid server on a Linux machine, and then have other machines use that squid server as the network proxy. Procedures (for squid installed on Ubuntu) sudo apt-get install squid3 Edit /etc/squid/squid.conf . Make sure you have uncomment the following acl lines: acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 acl localnet src 192.168.2.0/24 (Replace 192.168.2.0/24 with the subnet of your LAN)  Make sure you have uncomment the following http_access lines: http_access allow localnet http_access allow localhost service squid restart . By default the server uses port 3128. Set other machines to use that squid3 server as the network proxy. Browse /var/log/squid/access.log to check the http requests. To make your proxy server cache nothing, follow the instruction at here . For instance, add the following line in /etc/squid/squid.conf . cache deny all