to minimise trafic flow, your proxy should share an ip on the customer
network, not on the "ethernet" network, ie dont send packets through the
router...
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On Tue, 23 May 2000, Vijay Valayatham wrote:
> Dear all,
> I'm planning to implement SQUID in a local ISP but am not too sure of how
> exactly the flow of packets will take place. Consider the basic network
> scenario illustrated below:
> -------------------- --------------
> | Customer networks | --> | ISP Router | ----> INTERNET
> -------------------- --------------
> |(Ethernet)
> |
> SQUID CACHE
>
> Does the ISP router need to re-route all HTTP traffic transparently to the
> cache server (redirect port 80) and have all the client PCs browsers
> configured to point to the SQUID as a proxy server using port 3128?
> Could you please describe the flow of traffic in this simplest of scenarios?
> Went through the FAQs etc but couldn't find a clear explanation.
> Thanks!
> - Vijay
>
Received on Mon May 22 2000 - 16:25:39 MDT
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