Re: [squid-users] Transparent mode with just 1 Ethernet port ?

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Kevin C.
Connell<kevin.connell_at_millerpaint.com> wrote:
> Greetings,

Hello!

> We are running v 2.6.STABLE18 on an Ubuntu box that has (1) Ethernet port. We are successfully running Squid in non-transparent mode, and it works very well.
>
> My first question:
>
> Is there a compelling reason to upgrade to a newer version of Squid?

In addition to the reasons Chris mentioned, there's also
 * increased performance
 * increased standards compliance

> My second question:
>
> Can I run our current version of Squid in transparent mode... with a single Ethernet port?  All of the info I've seen on the web points to having (2) Ethernet ports, and the hardware I'm using is a 1U server box with just 1 Ethernet port on board.  If transparent mode can be done with 1 Ethernet port, any specifics on how to do it would be much appreciated.

Sure. You can either use VLANs or multinetting. The latter is not very
clean, and would give a networking engineer fits, but it works.
Whether it's viable only dipends on your particular environment.

In general going transparent is not really a nice thing to do, as it
makes things complicated. But in the end only you can know if it's the
right thing for you.

-- 
    /kinkie