thanks.
I downloaded and compiled squid anyway as it does not appear to be on
mandrake, just some default files under
/usr/share. the config file does look quite large but I
guess to get it working I just need to set up the ports
and point to our firewall. I also noticed on freshmeat that
there were several tools for squid.
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> Sent: 05 April 2001 16:11
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [scottish] Good http proxy ?
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>
> Hi,
>
> just yesterday I set up a Squid cacheing proxy server for my
> company, we have
> about 30 people, all on a 100MB connection, and a 512k internet connection
>
> All IP addresses are internal, 10.1.1.x.... the squid proxy is
> also on the
> internal side.
>
> I actually used FreeBSD to set it up. It was a doddle... It defiantly
> improves performance for staff a lot. The machine I am using only has one
> hard disk, but would really benefit from two or three.
>
> I am not really an expert at FreeBSD in any way. I have over 5 years
> experience with Linux, and about 2 days with FreeBSD. If you use
> FreeBSD, go
> for a standard user install, without X. When it is installed use
> the ports
> thing to install squid. You need to modify some directory permissions in
> /usr/local/squid/ and then change a couple of lines in the conf
> file. Very
> easy to do.
>
> Haven't looked into the log files, but I know there plenty of
> tools for it.
>
> Will
>
> On Thursday 05 April 2001 15:34, you wrote:
> > I wish to use a caching http proxy instead and
> > direct http from the firewall to this proxy instead
> > of directing users directly to the firewall.
> > I have used delegate before and it was fairly
> > easy to set up with good logging but I know that
> > squid comes with linux mandrake. any reccomendations
> > on what I should use to get:
> > a. good caching
> > b easy config
> > c. good log files
> > d. with a few log file analysis tools out there.
> >
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