Fritz Mesedilla wrote: > > Hello! I'm quite new here. > > Would it be possible for me to have squid and a firewall on the same server? I'm > concerned about security and also on budget. > Theoretically, there is no problem. But I would advise agains it, also because of spurious port usage of squid when maintaining connections.
One of the purposes of firewalls, is to control this. Also because of traffic generated , it will make the squid box 'noticable' and prone to attack. Therefore our squid is on DMZ, behind firewall M.
