From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 2 13:14:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA24834 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 13:14:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scotty.masternet.it (scotty.masternet.it [194.184.65.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA24825 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 13:13:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gmarco (ts3port3d.masternet.it [194.184.65.185]) by scotty.masternet.it (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA05909; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 22:12:43 GMT Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19970902221609.008d4100@scotty.masternet.it> X-Sender: gmarco@scotty.masternet.it X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 22:16:09 +0200 To: "Stephen Guthartz" , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" From: Gianmarco Giovannelli Subject: Re: best proxy server port and another question In-Reply-To: <01BCB7AB.E5DEB640.stephen@markonfootwear.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 14.24 02/09/97 -0400, Stephen Guthartz wrote: >I have recently set up my first freebsd (2.1.7.1) machine for my small ISP >service in Brazil. Besides running the machine as a secondary DNS, I would >like to set it up as a caching proxy server to try and help relieve >bandwidth bottlenecks. I've heard about three packages, harvest, the >apache add-in module, and something from CERN. What do you suggest. If >possible, could you send installation instructions beyoind the MAKE file? We use squid (ready to install in the packages) and it works quite good.... very simple installation and configuration... Btw ... A questions for the experts... Is possible that the proxy slow down the connection if a lot of users use it ? I'll try to explain better : If everyone use the ethernet band of the proxy (instead of using the "modem band" in the case of no proxy) for downloading and surfing is possible that all the system slow down ? I hope it is clearer , but I am not so sure :-) Regards... Gianmarco "Unix expert since yesterday" Home page: http://www2.masternet.it/~gmarco Server page: http://www2.masternet.it/