Sometimes in order to test a computer’s hardware or software we need a network link for the network adapter. The solution, very often, is to carry around a hub.
If you don’t want to carry around a hub, or you simply don’t have it, you can create a network loopback cable. The loopback cable will work as the computer was connected to a real network transmitting and receiving packets. This kind of setup allows the technician to troubleshoot hardware.
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…