On Nov 12, 2004, at 2:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 11/12/04 1:22:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> The issue with proxies is that they are a drag on your network; using
> squid as a firewall only isnt very smart. If you are already using it
> fine. But on a large network you are better off using a firewall or
> some
> sort of bandwidth management like the stuff on etinc.com.
>I thought his issue was more on finding internal systems having >problems and blocking the specific sites from getting hit. > >The proxy should speed up access if the same sites are being hit, as � The "proxy" doesn't "speed access", the cache does. So using squidguard without squid enabled, or privoxy or SNORT�which�are not�caches, is what I was referring to. � proxy != Cache � which is I think is your confusion.
Sorry, I hadn't run across anyone running squid in a non-caching mode so I didn't specify that. SquidGuard is purely a filter and it can't run without squid, to my knowledge. But I could be wrong.
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