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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