Hello Linux folks, Could somebody please give me clarification about Squid proxy purposes. Do I really need this squid daemon running for general web browsing, firewalling and masquerading of my home network? Thanks in advance, Alex -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Hi, On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Alexander Daniloff wrote:
Could somebody please give me clarification about Squid proxy purposes. Do I really need this squid daemon running for general web browsing, firewalling and masquerading of my home network?
No, not at all. For a single workplace, Squid is overkill IMHO. Squid is a http proxy, that means it caches web pages for quicker viewing. If you want a fast http proxy without the overhead and the complexity of Squid, have a look at wwwoffle. Squid has nothing to do with firewalling and masquerading, this is being handled by different tools. Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer 90443 Nuernberg, Germany -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Lenz Grimmer wrote:
No, not at all. For a single workplace, Squid is overkill IMHO.
Well, its not THAT complicated. And you can even use Webmin to help set it up. I use it, both on my ISDN gateway machine at home as well as on my work machine. Works great as a single cache for ALL my browsers on a single box: Netscape 4.72 , 6pre1, Mozilla, etc. And I even use it to support windows clients running in a VMware session. Tip: use Squid (or wwwoffle), with your netscape cache set to 0. Seems to make my Netscape more stable.... Colin -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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From: Alexander Daniloff
Could somebody please give me clarification about Squid proxy purposes. Do I really need this squid daemon running for general web browsing, firewalling and masquerading of my home network? Thanks in advance, Alex
Squid is just a web proxy.. It is preferable to use rather than letting your clients masq out to the real world.. You don't NEED it.. But it can be nice :) Cya Matthew Matthew King: Network Engineer, Cable & Wireless Optus. My ICQ#: 2342475 Message me! Cellular Phone: +61 404 898544 040 489 8544 (Inside .au) Home e-mail: nerd@zip.com.au Work e-mail: Matthew.King@cwo.net.au Homepage: http://www.zip.com.au/~nerd/ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GIT d+ s: a--- C++++ UL++++ P+ L+++ E---- W++ N++ o++ K w O- M- V- PS+ PE Y+ PGP- t+ 5++++ X++ R+ tv++ b+++ DI+++++ D++ G+++ e* h* r++ y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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