Devdas Bhagat wrote:
Major overkill. Just make sure that the NICs have an Intel chipset and a large buffer (something which the rtl8139 based cards miss).
My ethernet cards will be D-Link DGE-500T is 100/1000 mbps 32 bit card Nway Gigabit LAN adapter. will have 3 cards :) btw here is the official page... http://d-link.com/products/?pid=124
You can use authentication for squid for web surfing, but that will not block application which do not go through squid. Personally, I would setup NIS/LDAP as centralized authentication and push firewall rules based on login and logout events for the LDAP server.
Basically i m gonna install squid on the main server and i dont want anyone to enter proxy address in the IE options or in any brower to surf...so is it possible to use squid without entering proxy address in all the machines ?
regards Deep