[Sderby] squid proxy servers?

[Ashley Heath]

Hi Graeme,

Not sure if squid could do what you ask, haven't gone into that much detail with it, but would be interesting to know if it could do it.

Depending on what you want to achieve, if you have a spare box you could

a. configure it with squid and proxy all http/ftp requests through it
b. set up IP forwarding and use NAT
c. both of the above

This will allow you to hide all other computers on your network, it will appear as if all requests originate from the same machine, keeping you below the limit.

Ash

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 12:04:35 -0000
"Graeme Phillipson" <graeme@charndyn.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
> I've not posted to this list before, so I suppose I should introduce myself.
> I use linux at work (www.codamotion.com), but as a programmer, not a system
> adminisrator. However I get roped into that all the time.
> We've been struggling getting a BT openworld satalite connection to work
> (we're in a little village, no adsl, and ntl won't sell to bisnesses here).
> It says it only supports 4 computers, and it would appear they *really* mean
> it. I thought maybe it would only be for support purposes, but if you make
> more than 4 simutaions connections the speed of all of them drops to around
> 0.3Kbs.
> I'm wondering if it would be possible to configure squid to forward requests
> differently depending on size, small requests would go over our ISDN line,
> and big (say <500KB) would get forwarded to the proxy box that BT have
> provided. Has anyone tried to do anything like that before?
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Graeme Phillipson.
> 
> 
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