In most of case, a company want to efficient and maximize their bandwidth use. In which you know you can speed up your loading time when browsing by using squid as a web cache. I'm not gonna tell you how squid do it or how to install it. For more details about squid you can refer to my old post about how to install squid and monitor it. Now the next case is you feel your internet connection is slow, even you using squid as web cache.After take sometimes to the squid log, you know that some … Read more...
[TIPS] Show Squid Log Continuously – Squid Web Proxy
July 13, 2009 • 1 Comment
From the last post i show how to install Squid Cache as intercept (transparent) proxy. So i expect your squid already running smoothly right now. Ok now i want to share how to see the squid log. Usually by default squid log is in /var/log/squid/access.log, and you can see the log by open the file.But the next question is, how to see your squid log continuosly, if you want to monitor your squid? I believe there are tons of program to this, but i prefer see it on shell because it really simple … Read more...
[HowTo] Install and Configure Squid as Transparent Proxy
July 12, 2009 • 200 Comments
Squid Cache is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator.[quote]An intercepting proxy (also known as a "transparent proxy") combines a proxy server with a gateway. Connections made by client browsers through the gateway are redirected through the proxy without client-side configuration (or … Read more...
