[Sderby] squid proxy servers?

[Graeme Phillipson]

Hello,
I've already set up NAT with a firewall, you get static 'real' ips with the
satalite, so it would be a bit of a security risk not to use it. Didn't use
linux though, linksys make a router for home networks which is only 60 quid,
so it was cheaper than a second hand box to run linux on. I've got a box
which I can use to run a proxy on, and the idea was that would do the
sorting , big filkes over satalite small ones over ISDN.
I've been looking into squid, and I cant really see any way of doing this
myself myself.

However, I know some ISPs use a 'transparent proxy' where the router
redirects everything to the proxy, does anyone know how to do this, I was
thinking I could redirect everything to a webserver, adn write a python
script to do the job. I'm not very familer with messing with routing, above
setting up NAT (and I usually use nice graphical tools to do that). Does
anyone know much about that?

Thanks,
Graeme.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ashley Heath" <aheath@clikmail.net>
To: <sderby@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Sderby] squid proxy servers?


> 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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