> -----Original Message----- > From: Phillip Deackes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 7:44 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: How easy is it to set up squid for a school? > > > I am ICT Coordinator in a Leicestershire High School (UK). Our network > comprises an NT 4 server and about 40 workstations running Windows 95. I > want to add a machine to act as a proxy web cache to speed up Internet > access through our meagre 128K ISDN dial-up link. I intend using Linux > and squid. > > SuSE are very active in the educational arena in the UK and they > maintain an excellent schools mailing list. It appears that most of my > colleagues are using SuSE to implement their proxy web cache. As a > Debian user (well Storm now) i would prefer to use Debian or Storm > Linux.
I wouldn't know about this mailing list, but the out-of-the-box install of squid sucks in SuSE 6.4 and 7.0. > Everyone says how easy it is to set up squid using YAST in SuSE Linux. > Does anyone have any experience of setting up squid in Debian? Is it > harder? The default config file Just Works(TM). You might have to change the ACLs from "deny all" to "allow my LAN" or something. > I have no experience of Linux and networking, apart from connecting my > workstation to the Internet so it has to be relatively easy!! I'm confident I could walk you through the process on a potato box, if you want. What Debian version is Storm based on? Christian
