Can I use Squid on this low end machine?

Hi everybody!
I've currently have a Red Hat 5.0 Linux on a network with +/- 70 computers
and it's doing all the routing to reach the internet with a ppp dial-up link
(dynamic IP). It works fine, all clients are able to access the Internet
with ip-masquerade running on the linux box.
The machine is an old 486DX-33 with 16Mb and VL-BUS IDE controller on a
2.1Gb seagate hard disk.
Will I be able to run Squid on this machine? If yes, is there a particular
version I should install rather than another because of this machine? I've
seen something about a NOVM version. What kind of tune-ups would I need to
do with the .conf file?
There are, on the average, 3 to 4 users accessing the internet at a time.
Sometimes I see 5 or 6 users, but I never saw more than this.
I would like to try Squid for:
- speed up "nearby" pages (they are NOT on an Intranet), since almost
everybody retrieve always the same pages (local internet newspaper,
altavista, etc).
- provide access logs
- use ban lists (prohibited sites using regular expression matches on xxx,
sex, etc)
- use time-limited access (some users will only be able to access the
internet on lunch hour, for example)
- provide some added security together with the firewall.
I will still need then some proxy for ICQ, POP and SMTP, but I can keep with
masquerade as well (as long as I force forwarding of all HTTP packets to
squid, otherwise my users could just turn proxy off in Netscape and have
access to everything... I guess that's transparent proxy, isn't it?).
Thanks for your time. Sorry for the long email...
Received on Tue Dec 08 1998 - 17:54:03 MST