IMO the ideal solution would be (2): use ipchains to masquarade and
Squid for caching. You can setup ipchains to do transparent caching
with Squid -- it's there in the IPCHAINS-HOWTO, so your clients don't
have to know that their data could actually be coming from the cache.
Regards,
-- Raju
>>>>> "Chetan" == chetan kumar s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Chetan> On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, BMA wrote:
>> Hi, I am considering the following options :
>>
>> 1) A linux box with squid for proxy and caching 2) A linux box
>> with ipfwdm for connection sharing and squid for caching 3) A
>> router (most probably LRP or FREESCO or IPRoute) for connection
>> sharing and squid for caching 4) Install MS Proxy in the NT
>> server and use that.
>>
>> Actually I really don't know the diff. between 1 and 2
>> (ie. using ipfwdm for
Chetan> 1) is sone at the user level, whereas (2) is done (ipmasq)
Chetan> in the kernel space. So interms of forwarding (2) is
Chetan> better. But (2) do not support any caching, and caching
Chetan> provides much better solutions for browsing.
>> [snip]
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