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by Ma » Fri, 14 Jul 2000 04:00:00

Hi all

Is there a simpler (and safe) alternative to squid to implement a
tranparent proxy? I have read that, although powerful, squid is fairly
difficult to configure and I am affraid I can compromise the system I'm
going to install it in if I do something wrong.

Tnx

by **Tim Hayn** » Fri, 14 Jul 2000 04:00:00

> Is there a simpler (and safe) alternative to squid to implement a
> tranparent proxy? I have read that, although powerful, squid is fairly
> difficult to configure and I am affraid I can compromise the system I'm
> going to install it in if I do something wrong.

Squid is perfectly safe & wonderful - IME it's the best if you've got the
machinery to cope with it (a fair resource-load per hit, putting it that
way).
Alternatives are: junkbuster, wwwoffled, adzapper, ...

Around here at home I use wwwoffled. For easy configuration, it's pretty
good. OTOH it has one or two locking problems if you have several boxes
asking for the same URL at once. I've not looked into junkbuster, but from
what I've heard, its advocates are fairly fond of it :)

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by **Rootma** » Sat, 15 Jul 2000 04:00:00

Sounds like your in the same boat I was. I found Oops!, it is
supposed to be faster, easier to setup and less resource
intensive.

I got mine setup in less than an hour. You also need the
Transproxy module (which I *guess* you need with Squid too). It
reroutes all the port 80 requests to the given proxy port so as
to make the proxy invisible.

I was going to give you URLs to both but I can't seem to get
through to www.freshmeat.net at the moment, either their down or
my access is screwed up again. Go there and search for both
Oops! and transproxy.

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>Hi all

>Is there a simpler (and safe) alternative to squid to implement
a
>tranparent proxy? I have read that, although powerful, squid is
fairly
>difficult to configure and I am affraid I can compromise the
system I'm
>going to install it in if I do something wrong.

>Tnx

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Transparent proxy other than squid???

Transparent proxy other than squid???

Transparent proxy other than squid???

Transparent proxy other than squid???