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

Dear Andrea

Linux Distro . Redhat . Suse etc

All linux kernel support iptables which are required
for transparent proxy

http://www.dansguardian.org/ can be intrgrated with
squid to do content filtering

http://www.squidguard.org for url filtering

Many log anaylsis tools are availble

http://www.squid-cache.org/Scripts/

and you wont die at site and u will be there to
administrate

Regards and Good Luck

UW

--- Andrea Ferraris <andrea_ferraris@libero.it> wrote:
> 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

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Received on Sun Dec 28 2003 - 12:19:20 MST