[squid-users] What Linux distribution for a squid trasparent proxy server

Happy new year!

Sorry for my bad English and if the question has
already been posted and replied, please, give me
a pointer to the reply that I couldn't find in the FAQ,
neither in the mailing list archive.

Functional Requirements and constraints:

the system should be a transparent proxy and cache http server.
It should allow/disallow the access to internet sites, upon their
names, ip or contents, and should do http traffic monitoring.
At maximum it will be 80 client PC connections together.
The normal traffic will be of about 20-30 contemporary users.
The internet bandwith is about 2 Mbits and the internal lan
is at 100Mbits.
The administration should be easy, because if I die, at the site
there are no UNIX experts.

I'd like to use Linux+squid for transparent proxy-cache.
For easy administration I see that exists a webmin plugin for
squid.

What I'd like to know is what Linux distribution should be
more effective to meet the functional system requirements.

It is, which distribution comes with a kernel that can do
transparent proxying, an updated squid, smartly default
preconfigured and with the tools to do site and content
filtering and trafic monitoring?

Best regards to all and thanks to replying people,

Andrea
Received on Sun Dec 28 2003 - 11:12:45 MST