[Linux4christians] Setting up Squid on Kubuntu

Michael Hipp michael at hipp.com
Thu Jun 22 16:03:01 EDT 2006


> From: "David Hawke" <David.Hawke at ppfort.net>
> or ...
> find yourself an older desktop system - eg HP small form factor systems
> or an older Vectra VL - they are almost silent (actually anything
> designed for the office environment is usually almost silent). Load it
> with you favourite firewall or a home grown install (I favour the latter
> based on Gentoo for control) and away you go.
> 
> PII 400 / 64Mb RAM is more than sufficient - it can cope with much more
> traffice than that.

Are you sure that's enough horsepower to run squid and a content filter? I've always heard such needs quite a bit more than a simple firewall/router.

Just asking. I don't run one myself.

Michael



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