Now squid is up and running on our network, I am thinking ahead. We are about to upgrade the network to 100MBit cabling/switches and Pentium III workstations. By March next year we should also have a broadband 2MB connection to the Internet (according to our LEA!).
In these circumstances, is there any benefit in running a web proxy cache? I do not use it to restrict access to certain sites etc..
If you're happy with the setup, and you're not going to be giving yourself an extra support headache, then yes: -- A 2meg link is a nice size but it's not *that* big, so any way you can reduce the load on the link will help. Especially if you've got a bunch of teen surfers on high powered workstations. -- Depending on your network setup you might be able to use the proxy server as a bastion host, so you can concentrate your knowledge of security on that host rather than trying to keep all your individual workstations secure. -- Wenn es wert das Tun ist, ist es wert das Tun falsches schnelles Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net