Re: Traffic flow with SQUID implementation

to minimise trafic flow, your proxy should share an ip on the customer
network, not on the "ethernet" network, ie dont send packets through the
router...

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On Tue, 23 May 2000, Vijay Valayatham wrote:

> Dear all,
> I'm planning to implement SQUID in a local ISP but am not too sure of how
> exactly the flow of packets will take place. Consider the basic network
> scenario illustrated below:
> -------------------- --------------
> | Customer networks | --> | ISP Router | ----> INTERNET
> -------------------- --------------
> |(Ethernet)
> |
> SQUID CACHE
>
> Does the ISP router need to re-route all HTTP traffic transparently to the
> cache server (redirect port 80) and have all the client PCs browsers
> configured to point to the SQUID as a proxy server using port 3128?
> Could you please describe the flow of traffic in this simplest of scenarios?
> Went through the FAQs etc but couldn't find a clear explanation.
> Thanks!
> - Vijay
>
Received on Mon May 22 2000 - 16:25:39 MDT