Re: [SQU] Is Squid for me?

Dave,
If you need only proxy feature, you only have to enable IP Masquerading in
your linux box (the one working as a proxy). there is no need of installing
squid or other software tho proxy this requests.

Regards, Patricio

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Brooks" <martin@hinterlands.org>
To: <davep@hmgcc.gov.uk>; <squid-users@ircache.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: [SQU] Is Squid for me?

> At 15:40 24/10/00 +0100, DaveP wrote:
> >My question is, would I be better using Squid? I'd like to totally
> >disable cacheing (as I can with Apache). Authentication of clients is
> >not an issue, but the proxy must handle HTTP, HTTPS and FTP requests
> >including sites which require authentication.
>
> Hi Dave
>
> IMHO, proxies are a Good Thing[tm]. The very least they do is provide a
> single route in and out of your network for Web traffic and effectively
> anonymise each client making connection requests to the outside world.
>
> On top of that, you can also introduce spambusting rules that help you to
> make better use of your bandwidth - blocking any site with the word
> "doubleclick" in the hostname is always a Good Thing[tm] too.
>
> Even if there's only a 1% overlap for the sites your clients request,
> that's still 1% of your bandwidth you just saved.
>
> Regards
>
>
> Martin A. Brooks
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