On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Varadharajan Mukundan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > >> Actually one SQUID Server is running already in main server > You can use that as main proxy server and have many proxy server depending on > it > >> I need one more SQUID Server to be run for a group of systems in same network > > As far as i know, you can achieve this by making the new proxy server > refer to main proxy server or else you can create a NAT for the new > proxy server and make it also a main proxy server.
This is simple to set up. Let us say current server is S1 and is the gateway for all the machines on the network. Setup S2 as a new server and configure the browser on the clients to use S2 as a proxy. The issue would be "how does one prevent users on these clients from removing the proxy and going via S1 direct?". The easiest method would be to segregate these set of machine into a subnet physically with S2 as the gateway, or via static IPs which users cannot change (assuming no root/ admin access) or configuring 2 separate VLANs with S2 being a member of both VLANs assuming your switches support VLANs. The end purpose is unclear though. Why would one want to use 2 different proxies for the same internet connection? (a) Managing access to Internet? That can be done even with one well enough. (b) Load one proxy one server becoming too heavy? Pretty rare to come by. If the end purpose is made known, it is possible folks on this list may come out with more elegant solutions. -- Mohan Sundaram _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
