Ive built what I hope to be a decent loadout for use in a small company using Squid and SquidGuard on a linux box.
With some google and list searching I found some good methods to increase performance to the load (like using reiserfs on certain partitions). Is there a config file example for high performance? Ive seen some projects include multiple conf files in the source (maybe its because this is RedHat) and sometimes there is a config file for high performance. Second, this proxy will not be talking to any other caches, it is behind the company firewall and I think I turned it off correctly (I wont know until I sniff the lab traffic). Is there a faq entry I am missing on disabling this so I know I set it up correctly? Ive went over the current faq a few times and dont see this. Third (ok i counted and this is more than three questions), after this system is baselined, the next phase will be to also install Privoxy on the system. Is there a recommended order? ie should privoxy hand-off to squid or vice-versa? I read this faq entry http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-4.html#ss4.9 but it says "First, you need to give Squid a parent cache. Second, you need to tell Squid it can not connect directly to origin servers" What about if Squid, SquidGuard and Privoxy are all on the same box? How would the configuration be done? thanks! Greg
