Re: [squid-users] InterScan and Squid

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Kondrashin" <mkondrashin@apl.ru>
To: "Jerry Murdock" <jmurdock@itraktech.com>; "Akshay Chauhan"
<akshay.chauhan@fndc.govt.nz>; <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] InterScan and Squid

>> I use Client -> Squid ->Interscan -> Internet. Works well.
>>
>> If you need to "hide" the interscan, do Client -> Squid -> Interscan ->
>> non-caching Squid.
>
> This configuration is not officially recommended, but it should work.
> If you use InterScan on Linux it can act as non-caching proxy by itself.
>
But Interscan doesn't know how to participate in a squid hierarchy, knowing
only one "parent" proxy. The "outside" squid helps this.

>> There may be some performance benefits to the latter as well if it's a big
>> pipe. I feel squid is more efficient at pulling the data down - strictly
>> subjective though, I have done no real tests.
> I'm not sure with that.
>
Neither am I. Haven't set one up this way just for performance reasons. Only
reporting what it "feels" like.

> Another solution is to use proxy authentication. Auth. requests pass through
InterScan and user names are logged in squid log.
>
But you lose address based logging and acls, and it doesn't work with
transparent redirection.

Jerry
Received on Tue Mar 05 2002 - 09:27:13 MST