From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 19 15:47:49 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 757D116A417 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:47:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iaccounts@ibctech.ca) Received: from pearl.ibctech.ca (pearl.ibctech.ca [208.70.104.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B25613C459 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:47:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iaccounts@ibctech.ca) Received: (qmail 69109 invoked by uid 1002); 19 Nov 2007 15:47:34 -0000 Received: from iaccounts@ibctech.ca by pearl.ibctech.ca by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (spamassassin: 2.64. Clear:RC:1(208.70.104.100):. Processed in 6.507647 secs); 19 Nov 2007 15:47:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.30.110?) (steve@ibctech.ca@208.70.104.100) by pearl.ibctech.ca with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 19 Nov 2007 15:47:27 -0000 Message-ID: <4741B019.6040105@ibctech.ca> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:47:37 -0500 From: Steve Bertrand User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: infofarmer@FreeBSD.org References: <473DD804.1020502@ibctech.ca> <20071118151716.GA57722@amilo.cenkes.org> <4741968A.3010009@ibctech.ca> <20071119145205.GE57722@amilo.cenkes.org> <4741A773.8010101@ibctech.ca> <20071119153252.GF57722@amilo.cenkes.org> In-Reply-To: <20071119153252.GF57722@amilo.cenkes.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD router and WCCP X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:47:49 -0000 >> I am familiar with IPFW, but I'd like to know all options in order to >> choose the best one. >> >> I would very much prefer to do this in a way without having to have >> Squid running on the box, but will if I have to. > > If filtering is all you want, you don't have to set up squid as a > caching proxy. I.e. it won't need much RAM and disk space. I have > yet to set up ICAP (with c-icap) in our workshop, but from > discussions on squid mailing lists it seems ICAP is in a pretty > usable state, both in squid 2.x and 3.x. Essentially, I simply need a method to redirect layer 3/4 traffic destined for anything:80 from the router to the appliance. I've got a few options now, so I'll be testing all of them in the coming days. Thanks for your suggestions. Steve