I have a Sun ES250 running Solaris 2.8, fully patched. The machine has a quad Ethernet card that is not currently in use. I want to load Squid on the machine to serve as a back-up for my caching proxy server. The proxy server is used for outbound http/https traffic and is not transparent, the proxy must be configured in the browser. My intent is to set up the Solaris machine to run in exactly the same manner. My overall purpose is to provide a back-up since my current hardware proxy server is beginning a slow death. Can someone recommend a current version of squid to use for this? Where I might obtain a copy, (current version's probably enough, I can poke around for the rest). The caching box I use is called a CacheFlow 3000 so if anyone is vaguely familiar with how that thing works, that is what I'm trying to back up with Squid.
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SQUID Questions
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well there is a whole load of stuff that comes with squid ...
if you don't need to worry about the caching side of the proxy server you might want to look at delegate
squid is completely configurable, allowing access to certain things from certain people/computers including authorisation has complete heirarchy control and all the extras ...
delegate is a multiple proxy, can do all sorts of proxy (including socks) and is very easy to configure (there is almost nothing to it
if you don't need to worry about the caching side of the proxy server you might want to look at delegate
squid is completely configurable, allowing access to certain things from certain people/computers including authorisation has complete heirarchy control and all the extras ...
delegate is a multiple proxy, can do all sorts of proxy (including socks) and is very easy to configure (there is almost nothing to it
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