[aklug] Re: Squid

Squid is super though there are other options besides squidguard..... we ran it
at West High School on Math end for 100 seat lab, a 30 seat lab and half a dozen
classrooms despite the folks in IT and had teachers from all over asking us to
show them how to implement it..... District still largely clueless and still
fuddling about with 8e6 which and clever kid bypasses at will (only messes with
clueless teachers - lol.
Squid was particularly effective in lab where most kids hitting same resources,
so cache really improved speed for much of the computer based instruction
adam bultman wrote:

> Glenn Copeland 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.
>>
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Received on Tue Oct 20 13:02:13 2009