RE: How easy is it to set up squid for a school?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phillip Deackes [mailto:gsmh@gmx.co.uk]
> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 7:44 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: How easy is it to set up squid for a school?
>
>
> I am ICT Coordinator in a Leicestershire High School (UK). Our network
> comprises an NT 4 server and about 40 workstations running Windows 95. I
> want to add a machine to act as a proxy web cache to speed up Internet
> access through our meagre 128K ISDN dial-up link. I intend using Linux
> and squid.
>
> SuSE are very active in the educational arena in the UK and they
> maintain an excellent schools mailing list. It appears that most of my
> colleagues are using SuSE to implement their proxy web cache. As a
> Debian user (well Storm now) i would prefer to use Debian or Storm
> Linux.
I wouldn't know about this mailing list, but the out-of-the-box install
of squid sucks in SuSE 6.4 and 7.0.
> Everyone says how easy it is to set up squid using YAST in SuSE Linux.
> Does anyone have any experience of setting up squid in Debian? Is it
> harder?
The default config file Just Works(TM). You might have to change the
ACLs from "deny all" to "allow my LAN" or something.
> I have no experience of Linux and networking, apart from connecting my
> workstation to the Internet so it has to be relatively easy!!
I'm confident I could walk you through the process on a potato box, if you
want. What Debian version is Storm based on?
Christian
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