[KLUG Members] RE: Long live DL! It's not just your father's firewall anymore!

[Bruce Smith]

> While I am trying to get the Squid proxy working with Devil, I will see how
> far I can get on trying to replicate the OpenBSD anti-spam gateway setup. If
> I get stuck, I will post my problem. If you get the configs migrated to
> Devil before I get done then I will switch to your recipe. Either way, I
> will do a write up and submit it to Linux Gazette.

I think your first step should be getting a Devil PC running (no squid).
Set a PC to boot from CDROM, have a blank/formatted floppy or USB pen
drive handy for your configuration.  Boot, login as root, run "setup". 
Configure your networking and such.  Get familiar with saving your
configuration to floppy/USB.

Then add a hard drive for your cache.  Instructions are on the web site.

Then try to get squid running.  Go though the default /etc/squid.conf
file and modify the defaults to fit your needs.  Point the cache and log
files to your hard drive, adjust the cache size, etc.  Then start squid
and see what happens.

If squid starts, try it out by configuring a web browser to use a proxy.
Check the squid logs to make sure it's really working.

Let me know if you have any questions or problems ...

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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