Re: Help - Cache on a dial-up line

Hi Robert,

I have a fairly basic setup with a Linux box as a gateway, with squid
running on it. It has an ethernet card to the rest of my network, and uses
the PPP interface to allow my network to get out to the rest of the
world. I am also using NAT/IP masquerading. It's a fairly simple setup
but it's relatively secure and very reliable.

It's a bit tricky to understand from your explanation though what is the
gateway machine, and where squid fits in on the network. It sounds like
you may have a problem with routing somewhere along the line - have you
looked into this at all?
Do you see any error messages in your cache.log or /var/log/messages
(var/adm/messages?) What does a traceroute out from your workstation look
like...and will everything work ok when squid is not running and no proxies
set on the workstation?

As for a squid config, well the default config should work with a minor
amount of editing - at least to get squid functioning, but there are no
special tricks to allow it to work over a dialup link or dial on
demand. Some people have however experimented and use the "offline" mode
of squid (there's an offline_mode tag in squid.conf) so that when your link
is down, squid won't validate any objects, but I'm not sure if this is of
any use to you.

Reuben

At Sunday 12:17 PM 16/01/2000 +0000, R.A. Jenkins wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to get squid running on a machine using dial-on-demand (via
>Diald) to an ISP and IP Masquerading to allow access from several machines
>on a local network.
>
>The dial-up system works fine on it's own, but obviously having a cache on
>my local network would give a drastic speed boost over the '56k' modem
>connection.
>
>I've tried numerous times to get this to work, but every time I start Squid
>& put in the proxy settings on the main machine I work from (Win98/IE5) I
>loose access to the ISP.
>
>I have tried 'from scratch' starting from the example config file with
>various permutations, I have also tried re-installing the whole system,
>without any better success.
>
>I would have thought that this application of Squid would be very popular,
>but having searched by every permutation of words I can think of, I can't
>find any references to it.
>
>
>
>Please can someone who has experience with running squid let me have a basic
>config file for this application, or at least some pointers to what is
>needed.
>
>
>Robert A. Jenkins
>mailto:raj@jrw.co.uk
Received on Sun Jan 16 2000 - 06:01:03 MST