Re: [nlug] Any good how-to's on building a transparent caching proxy server?

2011-02-16 Thread Dagmar d'Surreal
On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 21:59 -0600, andrew mcelroy wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:54 PM, David R. Wilson da...@wwns.com wrote: Yup. Stole if fair and square. Just go ask the SCO guys about it :-). I think novell had something to say about that No, I really do mean

Re: [nlug] Any good how-to's on building a transparent caching proxy server?

2011-02-15 Thread Jack Coats
Years ago I put a squid server in to do just that for my family (a very slow connection to the outside world back then). But as Andy noted, there are certain secure and interactive applications that the caching proxy just brakes. Especially banking, stock market trading, and some gaming servers

Re: [nlug] Any good how-to's on building a transparent caching proxy server?

2011-02-15 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - Years ago I put a squid server in to do just that for my family (a very slow connection to the outside world back then). But as Andy noted, there are certain secure and interactive applications that the caching proxy just brakes. Especially banking, stock market

Re: [nlug] Any good how-to's on building a transparent caching proxy server?

2011-02-15 Thread Chris McQuistion
I used to use Smoothwall and I liked it a lot but my routing needs outgrew what I could do with it so I'm using pfSense for my routing needs now. What I'd like to implement is a caching proxy that doesn't do any actual routing, it just sits between the router and the outside modem. Chris On

Re: [nlug] Any good how-to's on building a transparent caching proxy server?

2011-02-15 Thread Greg Donald
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Steven S. Critchfield cri...@basesys.com wrote: I've run a smootwall firewall at home now for 5+ years. Not once have I had an issue with the proxy in it. It is really nice since all I need is a cdrom to boot the machine. I have it installed on a 80 gig drive so

Re: [nlug] Any good how-to's on building a transparent caching proxy server?

2011-02-15 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 02:14:43PM -0600, Greg Donald wrote: I've been using pfSense for the past 3 years or so. It too runs just from a CD if you want. To me BSD just feels so much faster than Linux for routing and firewall stuff. As much as I still have nightmares over legacy

RE: Re: [nlug] Any good how-to's on building a transparent caching proxy server?

2011-02-15 Thread john
So, you mainly need the caching function? ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [nlug] Any good how-to's on building a transparent caching proxy server? From :mailto:cmcquist...@watkins.edu Date :Tue Feb 15 14:06:00 America/Chicago 2011 I used to use Smoothwall and I liked it a lot

RE: [nlug] Any good how-to's on building a transparent caching proxy server?

2011-02-15 Thread Mark J. Bailey
80s. Talk about nightmares! :-) -Original Message- From: nlug-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:nlug-talk@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John R. Dennison Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 2:22 PM To: Greg Donald Cc: nlug-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [nlug] Any good how-to's on building

Re: [nlug] Any good how-to's on building a transparent caching proxy server?

2011-02-15 Thread Dagmar d'Surreal
On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 14:21 -0600, John R. Dennison wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 02:14:43PM -0600, Greg Donald wrote: I've been using pfSense for the past 3 years or so. It too runs just from a CD if you want. To me BSD just feels so much faster than Linux for routing and firewall

Re: [nlug] Any good how-to's on building a transparent caching proxy server?

2011-02-15 Thread Chris McQuistion
I agree. I love pfSense, it just doesn't have this caching functionality (technically it does, but it doesn't work when you have multiple WAN and LAN connections as we have.) Chris On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Greg Donald gdon...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Steven

Re: [nlug] Any good how-to's on building a transparent caching proxy server?

2011-02-15 Thread andrew mcelroy
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.eduwrote: I'd like to implement a transparent caching proxy server on our network, preferably in a bridged mode so I can simply plug into the network between the router and the cable modem. Does anyone know of a pre-built

RE: [nlug] Any good how-to's on building a transparent caching proxy server?

2011-02-15 Thread Mark J. Bailey
I haven't looked, but could there be one possibly at turnkeylinux.com? From: nlug-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:nlug-talk@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of andrew mcelroy Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 9:24 PM To: nlug-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [nlug] Any good how-to's on building

Re: [nlug] Any good how-to's on building a transparent caching proxy server?

2011-02-15 Thread Evan Brown
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:24 PM, andrew mcelroy sophri...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.edu wrote: I'd like to implement a transparent caching proxy server on our network, preferably in a bridged mode so I can simply plug into the

Re: [nlug] Any good how-to's on building a transparent caching proxy server?

2011-02-15 Thread David R. Wilson
Yup. Stole if fair and square. Just go ask the SCO guys about it :-). Dave On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 14:45 -0600, Dagmar d'Surreal wrote: On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 14:21 -0600, John R. Dennison wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 02:14:43PM -0600, Greg Donald wrote: I've been using pfSense for

Re: [nlug] Any good how-to's on building a transparent caching proxy server?

2011-02-15 Thread andrew mcelroy
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:54 PM, David R. Wilson da...@wwns.com wrote: Yup. Stole if fair and square. Just go ask the SCO guys about it :-). I think novell had something to say about that Andrew Dave On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 14:45 -0600, Dagmar d'Surreal wrote: On Tue, 2011-02-15 at