[K12OSN] Squid / SquidGuard architecture

[Mike Rambo]

bear2bar at netscape.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> OK I know this may yet be another dumb question but ...
> 
> Since the lab "lost" its DansGuardian system (School reappropriation ^ redeployment of equipment) I've had ongoing problems getting Squid & squidguard working.
> So here goes..
> 1) Should this setup on a single server or two ?

Single. squidGuard is called by squid as a service. It is also very 
lightweight and while you may be able to hack up some way to run them on 
separate boxes any gains you made by having separate hardware for each 
process would probably be lost going over the wire to obtain the service 
if you had a very busy network.

> 1a) If one how ? I get everything blocked or nothing 

You're kind of asking these questions in a vacuum. How do you have it 
set up now? Which distro? Which version of squid? What kind of network 
setup? Config files... etc. etc.

> 1b) If two what SW goes on which box & how are they tied ? 
> 
> 2) Should  this/these servers be on their own switch/hub connected to the outside world & then anoother connection to a switch/hub for the lab ?
> 
> thank you for your HELP 
> 
> norbert
> 
> 


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