[Linux4christians] Setting up Squid on Kubuntu

[Matthew Lewis]

Okay - thanks everyone for their advice so far.  I'm looking into 
getting a cheap barebones system for the sole purpose of acting as a 
proxy to about six computers (only four of which will ever be used at 
the same time).  What  kind of hardware specs am I looking for to get a 
system like this as cheaply as possible?  It will obviously need to run 
24/7 for months on end, and I'll want a desktop environment for it just 
in case I ever actually have to use it for anything else.  Usually its 
only task will be to act as a proxy.  I'd like it to run cool and 
*quiet*.  It doesn't have to be all that fast since the load should 
typically be fairly low.

Any ideas on what CPU or RAM requirements would be for this purpose?  
And what's the cheapest (reliable) motherboard anyone would recommend 
for a low-spec box like this?

Thanks in advance,

Matthew

Samuel Clough wrote:

>I personally haven't used Squid, but I would
>second using DansGuardian to do the content
>filtering.  I set it up for a friend a while back
>on an OSX system.  I think Squid just provides the
>proxy and you need DansGuardian (or something like
>it) to filter the content and whitelist/blacklist
>sites.  Dans is very flexible for doing that so it
>will do what you want.
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>----- Original Message -----
>Subject: Re: [Linux4christians] Setting up Squid
>on Kubuntu
>From: THORPB at uk.ibm.com
>To: linux4christians at thelinuxlink.net
>Date: 06-20-2006 4:11 am
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>>For this kind of box I always use Smoothwall. It
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>has Squid built-in and
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>>there is excellent documentation for installing
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>Dansguardian (and ClamAV)
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>>for content-filtering, both of which now have
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>nice integration into the
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>>web-based GUI configuration tool. Can't
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>recommend it more highly. (Although
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>>bear in mind that if you're running a proxy and
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>content filter, you will
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>>need a slightly higher spec machine than for
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>just a plain firewall - I use
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>>a PII 300 with 256MB RAM which is just about
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>right)
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>>Ben
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>>linux4christians-bounces at thelinuxlink.net wrote
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>on 20/06/2006 02:18:24:
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