I would say it is something worth trying. Note that squid can be used a couple of different ways. For an Internet content-consumer company, it can reduce the amount of network traffic that actually has to go outside to retrieve web pages, documents, etc. For an Internet content-providing company, it can reduce the amount of incoming requests that actually wind up hitting the web servers, database servers, etc. Over and above that, squid can be configured so that the users don't even know it's there, or it can be set up to require a userid and password be entered to "go outside." Lots of nice flexibility is built into the package.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Kern Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 5:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Squid for the corporate lan I have been asked about running Squid in a SLES9 linux svm on our z890 IFL. I know nothing about squid. I was told it is a web proxy and content caching program. Has anyone run this on their zSeries machine to act on behalf of their entire corporate network? The requestor mentioned something about 80 megabits per second traffic and 150 gigabyte content cache. Besides his question about Intel binaries, is this request way out of reality? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
