Date:  Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:54:08 -0600
From:  Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet <cobaltfacts (at mark) virtbiz.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:12117] Re: Off topic Squid Cache
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Michael Stauber wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
> 
>> Does anyone know who builds or supports a squid cache, like the old cobalt
>> cacheraq servers?
> 
> There is an "AdvProxy" add-on available for IPcop. It installs Squid-2.6 and 
> integrates into the IPcop GUI as far as I can tell from the screenshots, but 
> I haven't tried it out myself.
> 
> http://ipcop.org/
> http://www.advproxy.net/

In addition, there is an implementation, with web GUI, built into the 
Smoothwall Express opensource router/firewall.

http://smoothwall.org/

We used the Squid implementation with the previous Smoothwall release 
when our office was on T1 and it worked very well.   Now that our office 
hangs off a VLAN on our GigE circuits, there's little point in caching 
web traffic for 9 users...

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