-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> I am ICT Coordinator in a Leicestershire High School (UK). Our network > comprises an NT 4 server and about 40 workstations running Windows 95. I > want to add a machine to act as a proxy web cache to speed up Internet > access through our meagre 128K ISDN dial-up link. I intend using Linux > and squid. Squid will make that ISDN line go from unusable to pretty decent. > SuSE are very active in the educational arena in the UK and they > maintain an excellent schools mailing list. It appears that most of my > colleagues are using SuSE to implement their proxy web cache. As a > Debian user (well Storm now) i would prefer to use Debian or Storm > Linux. > > Everyone says how easy it is to set up squid using YAST in SuSE Linux. > Does anyone have any experience of setting up squid in Debian? Is it > harder? I've never used YAST, but configuring squid on Debian isn't any harder than on any other distribution (ie RedHat) All you really need to do is: * Configure the ACL list to allow your IP number range to access the web cache - squid defaults to "deny everyone but localhost by default" * Propery configure the httpd_accel_* options in squid.conf. What you need to do is listed here: http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-17.html > I have no experience of Linux and networking, apart from connecting my > workstation to the Internet so it has to be relatively easy!! Ignore what the link I gave you says about "transparent proxying" - all that information might confuse you. The part about configuring squid is what you need to look at. - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: 9BF9 D84C 37D0 4FA7 1F2D 7E5E FD94 D264 50DE 1CFC GPG key id: 50DE1CFC GPG public key: http://tux.creighton.edu/~pbrutsch/gpg-public-key.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE5z5Hd/ZTSZFDeHPwRAv70AKDMLGOuSVi1srP4aZLIK4OuG9mnWACdE8Pl iD8LuFWzzO2MTundo1n9WGo= =/9NA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----