Squid is a good option. We have used this in the past. We found that most of our bandwidth abuse was on non work related streaming media, YouTube etc. In my organization less than 1% of streaming media is legitimately work related. Block streaming media, and I would anticipate your bandwidth charges decreasing.
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Joseph L. Casale <[email protected] > wrote: > I just wrote a stupid quick how to a few weeks ago: > > http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/Authenticate/NtlmCentOS5 > > > > All of the how-to’s I found when I first set it up ages ago had all sorts > of craziness like auth accounts for keytabs and Samba running etc… > > I have this working in 3 sites w/o error. > > > > The mailing list is one of the best for an open source product, there are > some devs that post every day. You won’t go w/o help for long :) > > jlc > > > > *From:* Steve Ens [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Tuesday, May 05, 2009 10:56 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Caching Appliance or Software > > > > I'll take a look, you have any tech docs for that? Or links that you use? > > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Joseph L. Casale < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Can’t beat the price of Squid:) > It integrates effortless into AD as well. > jlc > > > > *From:* Steve Ens [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Tuesday, May 05, 2009 10:40 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Caching Appliance or Software > > > > My bandwidth charges are starting to grow each month. We're looking at > something like ISA but without the firewall...any ideas? Or can I use ISA > and just not use the firewall? > basically a caching server....or perhaps there is something that I can > integrate with my Sonicwall? > Thanks > Steve > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke Sent from Haslet, TX, United States ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
