[aklug] Squid

In case anyone is interested. I have a windows network with roughly 170
users. We needed a cost effective way to filter out internet content. I
took a P4 2.8, 1GB ram, 40GB IDE computer and I installed Debian Lenny,
Squid and SquidGuard, apache2 to host my blocked page on it and it is
running like a champ. Installed Webalizer to get reports. We had a peak of
14k+ hit requests in an hour. I don't know how to get response time, but
since I am a user, I have noticed no degradation in my surfing speed.
 Purpose of this was to filter out certain sites (social networking,
jobsearching, etc). We looked at a Cisco product, but it was around $4k +
yearly license fees. This is obviously not as feature rich, but gets the
job done. This is the second proxy I deployed, the first being for only 6
users with the same hardware specs. I was a little nervous to see what
effect 170 users would have but it has worked great.
Just FYI.

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Received on Tue Oct 20 11:55:26 2009