RE: [squid-users] RE: Cisco content engine & Squid

All working thanks for the pointers, just a matter of implementing into user env now.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:hno@squid-cache.org]
> Sent: 28 April 2003 11:52
> To: McWhirter,Julia
> Cc: a.m.rasat@palangkaraya.speed.net.id; squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: RE: [squid-users] RE: Cisco content engine & Squid
>
> mån 2003-04-28 klockan 11.11 skrev McWhirter,Julia:
> > So now I need to integrate with squid. Our current setup is a Cisco
> > content engine (used for http/ftp proxy and cache engine), which is
> > adequate at our current user level. OK so I am only considering
> > implementing squid to support squidguard. This is the short-term issue
> > anyway long term I would like to investigate and optimize the caching.
>
> You can either replace your Cisco with Squid, or chain the two proxies
> together.
>
> If chaining you need to decide on which order you want to chain the
> proxies, and then configure the proxy closest to your users to use the
> other as a parent proxy.
>
> Using both for caching is most likely redundant, so if you want to keep
> the Cisco Cache Engine for caching then you should probably configure
> Squid without a cache.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
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Received on Tue Apr 29 2003 - 01:29:22 MDT