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ipchains and squid

i just got a cable modem connection to the internet. and i want to set up my linux box with ipchains and squid proxy. i have one nic card configured for DHCP and the other nic has a static address of 192.168.1.254. the DHCP NIC is connected to the internet and the Static NIC is connected to my internal LAN. is there anyone out there that can guide me step by step on excactly how to do it? how to much hard drive space do i need for the cache? any other valuable Info would be appreciated.

i am running:
Red Hat 6.1
Kernel 2.2.12-20
gnome desktop if it matters?
celeron 466 processor.
192 MB RAM
6 GIG Hard drive

iharding

Squid is very easy if you want to just use the RPM to install it from RedHat site. I am running SQUID for 40 users with 2 gig of HD, not probs. Make sure you can ping both networks from the proxy and everything should be fine. Your clients will just set up thier browsers to point to proxy.xxx.yyy.com port 3128 or if you change the squid.conf another port. If you install the RPM from RH Power Tools, it integrates into Linuxconf, and everything is menu driven.

Why do you want IPCHAINS? That would determine how to set it up.

owld

If you want security connection to inet,
you must setup firewall filters by ipchains. If not , forgot about ipchains.

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Thanks for the help j2!