Proxy Server Required for 10 users

[mh348]

i use ccproxy, and it does the trick.

I also use ccproxy works well but its quite basic, ipcop/smoothwall seem to hav better features, last night I tested the ipcop I had a old version that I downloaded a few years ago, setup the ipcop proxy to connect through ccproxy and it worked but I would rather setup as a gateway so it doesnt hav to rely on ccproxy.

 

[Amida]

What exactly does ISA do for you? I am asking this because that reason might make the difference in whether ipcop should be infront or behind ISA.

It's used as the primary firewall and Web Proxy.

If you put the IPCop on the outside then it won't be able to monitor the users browsing as it will only pick up the IP Address of the ISA server so you will have to put it on the inside.

 

[czc]

Couldn't you just get rid of the ISA server and rely on Ipcop for your bandwidth monitoring and poxy?

 

[Amida]

Couldn't you just get rid of the ISA server and rely on Ipcop for your bandwidth monitoring and poxy?

I'm still a little scared to rely our entire organitation running IPCop. Still only starting to learn Linux.

If I can get the ISA and IPCop to work together and something goes wrong with IPCop I can just uplug it and there is virtually no downtime.

 

[bboy]

i have written my own proxy program, with a little mod i could add a white/black list into it

 

[Tinuva]

Bests sounds like this to me:

Keep ISA as it is. Then configure IPCop on the same way you did with ISA on seperate hardware, but same ips. Then all you do is, take the network cables going to ISA and put it onto IPCop. If it doesnt work just plug them back into ISA.

 

[kilos]

ebox is another IPCop/Smoothwall but has file server/VPN server,bandwidth control.Mail server very much like ClarkConnect
Nothing like NTop to find who is doing what on your gateway

 

[hilton]

Does anyone know of a FREE PROXY server utility, with white-list and blocked sites that I can use
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OpenDNS will be the cheapest that you will find. No hardware, no additional costs and quick to set-up.