On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 17:01:58 +0000 (GMT)
"Mark Evans"
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As a head of ICT I have 1 ex-army technician who is self taught. We could not afford anyone who is LINUX able. I've spent many hours trying to get Apache/Squid to work, only to work out eventually that it was the addressing system forced on us by the old Acorn kit that stopped Squid from working.
Squid and for that matter just about anything else is quite happy using either 1.0.0.0/8 or 1.0.128.0/24
Ah yes it does, unfortunatly old acorns insist they use class A addresses and then zoom off and use seemingly odd default IP addresses. As most of these old machines had no hard disk it prooved impossible to set up IP stacks to give them valid IP addresses, hence no Squid.
On the other hand it took me a couple of hours to get Apache running on an WIN98 box. The nice people at Tiny came in
You did read the Apache docs? The ones which more or less say "run at your own risk on Windows"...
Yes I read that bit, which is more than I could manage to do with LINUX. It took me a week to realise that I couldn't get Apache to run as SuSe had installed it a configured it to run during installation. As all the books say LINUX/UNIX expects you to know how it works as it designed for experts in it, not us dim ones. Jamie J W Philpott Head of ICT Charles Burrell High School, Thetford, Norfolk Mon, 19 Mar 2001 17:01:58 +0000 (GMT)