I have purchased a used Compaq DL360 which I was going to use as a proxy server. Presently, we are using a cheap box with ipcop which is working fine but it didn't have much RAM (64MB), etc. This new box we will want to run squid and perhaps dansguardian for filtering (this is a non-profit company) and I'm wondering if I should just put ipcop on it or would it be smarter/better to install CentOS 4, squid and I see Dag has dansguardian package which suggests that I might get more and better options from this. Anyone have opinions on ipcop vs. CentOS Craig
>-----Original Message----- >From: centos-bounces at centos.org on behalf of Craig White >Sent: Wed 8/16/2006 11:22 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: [CentOS] proxy server - ipcop vs CentOS > >I have purchased a used Compaq DL360 which I was going to use as a proxy >server. Presently, we are using a cheap box with ipcop which is working >fine but it didn't have much RAM (64MB), etc. > >This new box we will want to run squid and perhaps dansguardian for >filtering (this is a non-profit company) and I'm wondering if I should >just put ipcop on it or would it be smarter/better to install CentOS 4, >squid and I see Dag has dansguardian package which suggests that I might >get more and better options from this. > >Anyone have opinions on ipcop vs. CentOS > >CraigCraig, For that particular application I would probably stick with ipcop. There are add on packages for dans guardian. IPCop is a pretty stripped down distro, and should run fine on 64M. David Nalley -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: msg-18908-1281.txt URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060816/92238226/attachment-0002.txt>
Craig White spake the following on 8/16/2006 8:22 AM:> I have purchased a used Compaq DL360 which I was going to use as a proxy > server. Presently, we are using a cheap box with ipcop which is working > fine but it didn't have much RAM (64MB), etc. > > This new box we will want to run squid and perhaps dansguardian for > filtering (this is a non-profit company) and I'm wondering if I should > just put ipcop on it or would it be smarter/better to install CentOS 4, > squid and I see Dag has dansguardian package which suggests that I might > get more and better options from this. > > Anyone have opinions on ipcop vs. CentOS > > CraigYou could try Clarkconnect. It is based on Centos-4, and works as well as ipcop with the better hardware, and it already has dansguardian, snort, and a banner ad filter. It is also rpm-based in case you want to add something. They have a free version with no restrictions, but you do have to register to get updates. I use it at home, and it is aces. I also use IPcop at work to filter 4 sites and tunnel them together, so I have experience with both. So if the Dl360 has at least 256 MB of ram, and a few gigs of hard drive, it should do well. I am running Clarkconnect on an old 1100 athlon that my kids said was too slow for their Windows games. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!
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