It sounds as if the simple solution will suit you. Squid is very easy to set up. Under SuSE it comes ready to go, all you need to change is the line in /etc/squid.conf for cache_host to point to your IFL proxy. eg. cache_host IFL_proxy parent 3128 3130 using whatever name/IP and ports thay suggest. There is also Squid2 which is supposed to be better but has a slightly different syntax for the conf file. Under SuSE it comes set to deny access to all as the default. This needs changing to suit your requirements - for details see earlier comments on this list. I would expect most of this to apply in principle to any distro. I have only used Storm for a workstation so I don't know whether it includes Squid or Squid2 and how it is set up by default. If you haven't already got an intranet server you could consider setting up Apache on your proxy as well. Good luck, and let us know how you get on. ____________________________________ Giles Nunn - Network Manager Carms Schools ICT Development Centre Tel: +44 01239 710662 Fax: 710985 ____________________________________ On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Phillip Deackes wrote:

Giles Nunn <giles@satproj.org.uk> wrote:

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Which distro are you intending to use? The all do the same job but vary in the tools used to set them up and the packages included. We used SuSE 6.3 for most of ours and squid comes as a package ready to install - all it needs is the access control lists editing. You haven't said whether you want your proxy to be used for access control or is it just to speed up the Internet? Our schools don't connect to IFL (that is what we are here to provide) but I believe that they do implement some form of content filtering. If you do need the access control function then you can use the facilities of RM Connect to disble access to the proxy settings in IE to stop anyone bypassing the proxy. If you need proxy settings for IFL then you will need to point squid at their filter as a parent cache.

Haven't got as far as deciding on the distro yet. I am most familiar with Debian and personally use Storm Linux, so I might go down this route. I will post a message on the Debian mailing list so I can get advice as to how easy the Debian squid package is to set up.

Our access to the Internet is via the IFL proxy. We cannot bypass this proxy unless IFL allow it for a paticular IP address in our range.

I want to set up this proxy server to speed up Internet access. I have no interest in content control - we are quite satisfied with IFL's efforts.

-- Phillip Deackes Using Storm Linux