I have very small children and I want to control what comes in. With that said, I was looking at my router and it may be able to do it. However, I'd prefer a true proxy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Monjar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 10:42 AM Subject: Re: [TriLUG] I want to build an HTTP Proxy for Home
> --On Sunday, August 01, 2004 01:56:15 PM -0400 Roy Vestal > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I want to build an HTTP Proxy for my home network. I'd like to use an > > old notebook I have lying around. It's a P-90, 40MB RAM, 2GB HDD. Not > > much of a machine, but for my use it should be plenty. I'm planning on > > using Debian stable on it simply because FC1/2 and WBEL are just too > > dang big and the notebook doesn't meet the requirements. > > > > Anyway, I was thinking of using Squid. Didn't know if anyone else had > > suggestions or experience that they'd like to share. Anyone know of > > howto's? I haven't check TLDP yet. > > Educate me please, how would having a proxy on that size machine for just a > few users help you? I've always viewed proxies as helping when you have > lots of memory for the cache and lots of users to take advantage of it. > Not flammage, just an honest question. > > That said, I, too, have used Squid for quite a few years, inside the > business, with great success. > > -- > Dan Monjar > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
