help needed with proxy

[fraz]

I have a spare comp lying round so i want to put it to use as a proxy server.
I currently have 3 pc's + server running off a 4 port router
can i set it up like the pic and have a transparent proxy, or can i even have a proxy with this setup??

[whetu]

you could do it like that (it's all IP based anyway), but it might make more sense to have the proxy hooked between the adsl connection and a hub/switch...

for what you want to do it sounds like you may as well just use smoothwall/ipcop.. unless the rig is half decent in which case a host OS of your choice + apache (if you want to keep it simple) or squid (if you want to do it properly - smoothwall uses squid for its proxy handling)

[fraz]

i installed mandrake 9.1 last night but i couldn't for the life of me, figure out how to get squid to work, in 4 hours (with much googling) i managed to get full acess/power user or whatever and then ungzip the squid tarball or something, and that was as far as i got.

the reason i havent gone for smoothwall is because my router is 100Mbit and my 4 port hub is only 10Mbit

I might try this apache you speak of :)

[Dan_NZ]

Frazzle rock

Use clark connect....it install in a standalone mode where it only needs on nic. Also does proxying as well as a caching name server (DNS)

Cheer Bo

Dan

<edit> have been playing with it tonight and one thing annoyed me....port number for the proxy is 3128....no where in the docos...had to google for squid default port number </edit>

[fraz]

I set it up and have had it running since last night.
I must say, it's pretty sweet. Once i figured out how to work it, I had it up and running in no time :)

[ovoskeuiks]

Fraz did you get a transparent proxy going or just a plain squid proxy?

[fraz]

i believe its squid.
The thing is i have to put the ip addy and port number into IE under the connections setting for it to use the proxy, this means that if the proxy box is off i have to go back to settings and disable it.
From what i have googled (havent had much time) there is nothing i can do about it except leave it on fulltime, mind you, now its quiet i might just do that