Re: [squid-users] location of web cache

2 squids. In some respects overkill though :]

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Lang" <aalang@rutgersinsurance.com>
To: "Squid-Users" <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 11:46 PM
Subject: [squid-users] location of web cache

> I'm beating myself up on the pros and cons of where I want to locate
the
> Proxy server (caches for clients getting webpages... no acceleration).
>
> I have the following setup.
>
> Internet
> |
> public router
> |
> firewall
> |
> DMZ
> |
> firewall
> |
> internal network
>
> Do I want to put Squid in the internal network or the DMZ? The
argument for
> each in a nutshell is: DMZ offers more security control, but the
internal
> network would optimize bandwidth even more (cached pages wouldn't be
served
> across the internal firewall). (Side note. both firewalls use 10 MB
> connections, so technically squid would be able to server pages faster
on
> the internal network)
>
> Opinions?
>
> Adam Lang
> Systems Engineer
> Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
> http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
>
>
Received on Thu May 03 2001 - 15:14:27 MDT