[tech] Squid

[Jean-Paul Blaquiere]

> On Dec 16, Grahame Bowland scrawled :

> UCC needs a Squid server. For this reason I will be 
> decomissioning mermaid in three minutes unless someone
> sends me an email telling me not to. I don't recall
> it doing anything important.
> 
sounds cool ;)

> Having observed Leighton setting it up, it looks like a 
> challenge. Anyone mind if I make the 486 we had donated with
> a SCSI harddrive our new Squid box? I'll backup the current
> harddrive contents as I remember there being some software
> of use.
> 
it's a good start, to learn on.  For serious work, a good squid server need
fast I/O.  ie good scsi, and 100 MBit ether.
however, having something *working* is insanely better than drooling over
something that's yet to appear.

good luck,
-- 
Jean-Paul Blaquiere
   japester at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
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