Setting Up Squid on FreeBSD

Squid is web caching and conserving badwidth application. With Squid, we will reduce the traffic 30% or more from normal usage (without squid) and enhance respone time. In here, i will use squid 2.7.STABLE3.

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OpenBSD/DG/Squid HowTo

I’ve had several people ask me recently how to setup Dan’s Guardian (DG) with Squid as a transparent proxy. I’ve been using DG for a couple of years now and I’ve set it up for some others as well. I’ve always used OpenBSD as my OS of choice for my router/firewall/content filter(RFCF) because OpenBSD is the most secure Operating System in the world. “Only two remote holes in the default install, in more than 10 years!” It says so right on their website (http://www.openbsd.org). I was first turned on to OpenBSD by my good friend DarkUncle (http://darkuncle.net) who helped me setup my first OpenBSD RFCF with Squid and DG as an alternative to SonicWall.

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Squid in 5 minutes

There are many great tools that Squid has to offer, but when I need to redirect http traffic to a caching server for performance increases or security, squid’s my pick. Squid has built in proxy and caching tools that are simple, yet effective.

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