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Caching Web Proxy (was: Re: Alcatel ADSL modem, Linux and Bezeq ADSL)



Geoff and Dani both say that a caching proxy is a Good Thing (TM).
I'd like to know if and how it improves network security (besides the
issue of reducing traffic to the ISP if more than one person at our
LAN surf to the same Web pages).

On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Dani Arbel wrote:

> Omer,
> 
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> 
> > Omer Zak wrote:
> > >
> > > We connected a LAN to the Internet via Alcatel's Speed Touch HOME ADSL
> > > modem.  This modem is an Ethernet modem, and works with a regular phone
> > > line (i.e. not ISDN).
> > > The gateway is Linux-based, and we use Mulix' patched pptp (with the
> > > --quirks option).
> > >
> > > We use a Linux-based gateway/firewall (with kernel 2.2 and ipchains).
> > >
> > > The connection works - we can fetch and send E-mail, telnet, FTP and surf
> > > to several Web sites.
> > >
> > > However:
> > > 1. This works with and without the --quirks=BEZEQ_ISRAEL option.
> > > 2. We can't surf to some Web sites both in Israel and abroad.
> >
> >
> > Why are you allowing the users to get to the web directly?
> >
> > IMHO, you should be running a caching proxy on the gateway machine. It
> > should point to your ISP's caching proxy.
> 
> This is a good thing to do. (and this is what I do at home)

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