RE: [SQU] Dual Proxy Question

From: Robert Collins <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 11:45:08 +1000

You could use _try_ one of the win32 ports of squid. There are two
native ports I know of, and my _unstable_ cygwin port. Those could run
on the wingate box instead of the wingate proxy component...

Just my 0.02c

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Markey [mailto:bruce@digitaldevgroup.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 17 August 2000 12:06 AM
> To: squid-users@ircache.net
> Subject: [SQU] Dual Proxy Question
>
>
> Hi all..
>
> I am a new squid user with an interesting scenerio and I was
> hoping someone
> could shed some light on this for me.
>
> We are basically a wireless isp. I decided to put in a
> squid box to help
> with some of our larger requests. We have some schools as
> customers and
> when 60 kids request the same pages it will free up a ton of
> our bandwidth.
>
> Here is the problem. We have an outgoing t1 to internet.
> But our downlink
> is a 25meg satalite link.. This link must run on a machine
> running wingate
> proxy. The squid is on the same network as this proxy. We
> also have 2
> Win2k machines running dns. And last but not least all of our
> customers are
> on a fake ip scheme, and are translated into a real addy by a
> Linux Router
> Project Box.
>
> My question is how can i tell the squid box to pass requests
> off to the
> wingate proxy. The wingate box is doing no caching. Is it
> just as simple
> as naming this as a parent cache server?
>
> And last, since my lrp box translates all fakes into one real i can
> effectivly set my access to http_allow that ip address and all will be
> granted access on our network.
>
> Thanks for the help all.. Hope to get this running today!
>
> Bruce Markey
> Network Engineer/Partner
> DDG Wireless
> 1-717-684-8481
> bruce@digitaldevgroup.com
>
>
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