Having a baby could affect your wireless communication? Yes. Well, indirectly yes. Who has a baby and a wireless network will most likely have a baby monitor. We all like to spend our time blogging, or browsing the Internet while the baby is asleep, but we couldn’t blog a word if we didn’t keep an … Read more
Using a Proxy Server in your Company’s Network is one of the best decisions you have made. But this decision can bring you some administration overhead if you don’t have an automatic way to provision the browser settings. Fortunately, for Microsoft Operating Systems there is a way to accomplish this. The procedure involves a configuration … Read more
Squid is a caching proxy software, licensed under GNU GPL, (free software).
It can help your Organization to reduce bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages.
Squid has extensive access controls and if you don’t mind Command Line Interface is not too hard to configure. It runs on most available operating systems including Windows.
The following article is a step by step HOW TO Install Squid on Debian. Most of the steps are easily applicable to any other Linux distribution such as: RedHat, Suse, Ubuntu, etc…