[H-GEN] Proxy servers

[Nikolai Lusan]

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On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Conor Cunningham wrote:

> Question 1. Is the above setup viable and reasonably easy for a moderate
> linux user to setup. (Reasonalbe understanding of routing, SMTP, POP etc).

It is quie easy, there are a number of HOWTO's that cover the various
stuff you need. Look at the netfilter HOWTO for iptables and masq, squid
is easy to setup (kewl snmp feature for stat gathering and very useful
acl structure with redirecter support for content control). You will
need an MTA of choice for outgoing mail (or you could just dnat to the
upstreams MTA) and fetchmail/cucipopd for the user mail side of thing.

> Question 2. Is their a commercially available router which could do much
> the same for a moderate price? Anywhere from $500 -$1000.

A router is by definition something that routes packets from one
interfaces to another ... possibly with some filtering. So the short
answer is no.  For that price you could proabably pay an experienced
linux user to do the config.


Nikolai


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