[Sussex] Proxy servers

[Steve Dobson]

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On 27 February 2003 at 13:09 Neil Ford wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:45:44 -0000, Andrew Guard wrote:
> > An Cisco is doing all that work (This was brought before I joined here).

> > 
> > The real issue is we are using an Satellite connection
(uplink/downlink).
> > And trying to make it seem to everyone it working faster ;).  The lag
which
> > this create is massive i.e. at least 750ms.
> 
> In which case use Squid (http://www.squid-cache.org/) on top of your 
> favourite unix-like OS.

Neil this isn't a complete answer in itself.  I would suggest that you
also need to configure your fire-wall to do NAT.  The get it to send all
port 80, 8080 etc connections to squid's port on the proxy machine.  Only
packets from the proxy are allowed to go out.

This is how I've set up my mail routing at home and it works really well.

Steve