[aklug] Re: Squid

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On Oct 20, 2009, at 11:59 AM, Tom Simes <simestd@netexpress.com> wrote:

> 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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> Tom Simes simestd@netexpress.com
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Received on Tue Oct 20 14:05:57 2009