A couple of weeks ago, many of you gave me some invaluable help on setting up squid on a machine at school. The aim was to use it as a web proxy cache on an RM Connect network. OK. I have the machine connected to the network and have configured it so that I can connect to the Internet through the network card. I put the address of our router as the gateway. I installed squid and made changes to /etc/squid.conf as suggested by Simon Rainey. I quote his comments below: cache_peer icpcache-1.rmplc.co.uk parent 8080 3130 no-digest cache_peer icpcache-2.rmplc.co.uk parent 8080 3130 no-digest cache_peer icpcache-3.rmplc.co.uk parent 8080 3130 no-digest cache_peer icpcache-4.rmplc.co.uk parent 8080 3130 no-digest # define the local network acl local-network dst 212.132.119.128/255.255.255.192 acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 # force all requests for local resources to go direct always_direct allow local-network # force all requests for non-local resources to go via a parent never_direct allow all You will need to reconfigure the browsers on all your stations to use your new proxy. By default Squid will listen on port 3128 wheras the IFL proxies listen on port 8080. If you want to keep your local proxy consistent then add this to the Squid config: http_port 8080 So far so good. My ignorance is almost total - I have a few questions: How do I make it so that other machines on the network can see the new linux machine? When I set it up I could not get it to assign an IP address automatically - don't understand dhcp. I am not sure how it can use the dhcp services of the server. I assigned it the last IP address in our allocated block, assuming the dhcp server would then not assign this address to another workstation. What do I set as the hostname and domain? On my home machine I just used a made-up hostname and the domain of my ISP. At school, my email address is p.deackes@oadby-gartree.leics.sch.uk; we run our own mailserver at mail.oadby-gartree.leics.sch.uk. When I enter the proxy details in Internet Explorer on the Windows workstations what do I actually put for the new machine? I gather Simon's suggestions mean that the port is 8080, but what about the proxy address? I hope things are vaguely on target since I can surf the web OK. I am currently using isdncache.rmplc.co.uk:8080 as the proxy in Netscape. Many thanks indeed for your help - and sorry to be so dense!! -- Phillip Deackes Using Storm Linux