hi Richard Squid defaults to deny all out of the box, although it fairly easy to change it to only allow your subnet i would be intersted in your results. Have you put any parent cache details into Squid? Dialnet use the cacheing functionality of I-Gear (the filtering tool) on some services, you need to ensure that your cache's are talking to get the best performance.... I have written a set of Perl scripts using the LWP modules for test performance of HTTP traffic and can can also compare proxy versus non proxy traffic, if anyone is interested in trying them out on their ISP let me know. They can also test ftp (using the Net::FTP module), they are a little raw at the moment, but all contributions appreciated :-) Malcolm ------------------------------- Dr Malcolm Herbert Head of Technology R&D, Becta 02476 847126 Mob: 07801 612438 -------------------------------
-----Original Message----- From: Richard Naylor [mailto:ranaylor@ntlworld.com] Sent: 22 August 2000 20:15 To: suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Squid
I am in the process of trying to set up a new proxy server for the school using SuSE 6.4. The machine is a PIII 550 with 128 MB RAM and an 8G drive. We have NT as the main server but I am trying to replace an existing NT proxy using OSS with SuSE/Squid. I have the machine configured and it is going out through our dialnet hardware server but the local Win95 machines get an error message saying that access is denied to Squid. My colleague is looking for a free Windows proxy so the race is on... Any help would be appreciated.
make sure that the default setting of
http_access deny all
still isnt set :) if it is then you need to read up on acls. but for testing purposes you could very quickley change to http_access allow all, but i wouldnt recommend this for permanent use.
oh and all ways remember to do a squid -k reconfigure after editing squid.conf. hth.