[Linux4christians] Setting up Squid on Kubuntu

[David Hawke]

Warren Sanders wrote:
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> Michael Hipp wrote:
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>>> 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
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>>> PII 400 / 64Mb RAM is more than sufficient - it can cope with much more
>>> traffice than that.
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>> Are you sure that's enough horsepower to run squid and a content
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> filter? I've always heard such needs quite a bit more than a simple
> firewall/router.
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>> Just asking. I don't run one myself.
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> I run Smoothwall on a PII MMX 200 / 64MB RAM and I have squid, dhcp,
> and firewalling on it just fine.  Currently nothing is swapping
> either.  BUT, when I run Dansguardian it maxes out the CPU and memory
> gets throttled.  I can definitely feel the hit when browsing.  So
> unfortunately I can't use that homebrew feature.
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PII 400 - firewall + squid without a problem

If you want to add dansguardian, then I'd be looking at a PIII 800 or 
better - with maybe 128Mb RAM
> I've been doing some research the past week and found a great mini-itx
> site and seriously looking into picking up one of these:
> http://www.logicsupply.com/product_info.php/cPath/49/products_id/372
> (for use as a backup server however). They also have pre-built
> m0n0wall boxes using the same hardware.
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Nice one

These sorts of boxes are in short supply here (NZ) - so you tend to 
build your own which is expensive, or look at someone's discards. And of 
course if you are biased towards building your own config for server 
environments :-) ...

David H

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