[aklug] Re: Squid

From: Tom Simes <simestd@netexpress.com>
Date: Tue Oct 20 2009 - 11:59:07 AKDT

On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:55:07 -0800
Glenn Copeland <glennc77@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Squid is teh awesome, very useful @ $JOB and can be quite entertaining
as well...

http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html

-- 
Tom
 
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