Re: [squid-users] ftp thru squid - more following quests

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 02:34:41 +0200

Aman Raheja wrote:

> 1> Anyhow, I want to ask that if I don't really need a cache server would IP
> masquerading be efficient enough to take over the proxy job of squid.

If you do not need any of the application level functions provided by
Squid, then masquerading will do the job more efficiently.

But there are other functions in Squid that sometimes alone makes it
worth the proxy:

  - Application level access controls
  - user authentication
  - good logging

Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu Apr 04 2002 - 17:59:43 MST

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