Squid Proxy Server

To be able to cache HTTP and FTP requests made from inside your LAN to the Internet, you will need to set up a proxy server on your firewall. This would permit a page to be requested by two different users to be retrieved only once from the Internet, thus dramatically fastening access to this page while saving bandwidth.

Mandrake security has chosen the proxy server Squid. The latter acts as an agent, accepting requests from clients (such as browsers) and passing them on to the appropriate Internet server. It then stores a copy of the returned data in an on-disk cache.

Choose between four options before going on to the next step: