On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 05:58:55AM -0800, Ramon de los Reyes wrote: > good day, > > we have been using masquerading to allow our > workstation to surf the internet. my friend suggested > that we should use squid instead. >
Your friend is absolutely correct, especially if you aren't exactly overflowing with bandwidth. > my question is which is better? any point / link to > explain the difference/advantage is highly > appreciated. > Neither is better though. IP masquerading is a general network address translation technique that is supposed to allow nearly any protocol, be it http, https, (passive) ftp, or anything you can imagine be used by people from within a private network as though they were the masquerading gateway (hence the name). You'll probably want to do this in addition to Squid, if you want your workstations to do other things on the Internet besides surf web pages. Squid is a web proxying and caching daemon that your clients send requests to to fetch web pages. It caches its results, so that a frequently visited site like yahoo.com or slashdot.org gets portions of it saved to the proxy's disks, conserving bandwidth and speeding the web surfing experience for your users, and the longer it's been in operation the better it runs, as the cache accumulates pages your users visit frequently. It also allows you a level of administrative control. If you don't like your users surfing naughty or frivolous websites, Squid logs all accesses, and gives you evidence to use against violators of your policy. In short, Squid is very, very good for web surfing, but if you want other protocols, then you'll definitely want to use masquerading too. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
