> -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Corlett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 15:38 > > Everyone: > > I have been asked by my department to look into setting up a system > to perform Internet content filtering with a proxy capability. I > will be setting it up to monitor our student labs which total > consist of 80 computers. I have been looking at running Red Hat > Fedora Core 3 on a Dell Optiplex GX260 with 768 MB of RAM and a 200 > GB 7200 rpm IDE drive with two Intel Gigabit NIC cards inside. > > I have been looking at either Squid or Oops as the proxy software > and most likely Dan's Guardian for the content filtering, etc. Any > recommendations on your experiences with either Squid or Oops? And > is this hardware sufficient to adequately do the job? > > I would appreciate your thoughts and experiences in this area as > this is a new venture for me.
I haven't tried Oops, but I have run proxies with Squid and DansGuardian before. In fact, I still run a small one at home. The setup you describe should work fairly well for a network that size. Are you planning to run this as a transparent proxy, a non-transparent but firewall-enforced proxy, or a non-transparent optional proxy? That probably won't make much difference in the hardware requirements, but it does make a bit of difference in the way you configure Squid. -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
