Re: Q: Using Squid on a firewall-Host?

From: Anthony Baxter <arb@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 20:04:42 +1100

>>> Frank Wegner wrote
> I have heard that people replaced their http-gw of the
> TIS-Firewall-Toolkit with squid. Is it sensible to use squid on a
> firewall machine as a proxy? Can I use squid to forward http and ftp
> requests both ways through the firewall it is running on?

Wow. Thats an _awfully_ large application to be running on a
firewall.

$ cd ~src/sbin/squid/squid-1.1.1 ; cat src/*.c | wc -l
   32843

Anthony
Received on Tue Dec 17 1996 - 01:31:31 MST

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