I’ve been looking to add a Squid Proxy Server to my compliment of gear, and was wondering if there was any consensus on how to connect it to Tik box? I’ve seen examples of configurations using a single ethernet port, and some using two.
Are there any hardware considerations for the Squid box?
I thought I might start a thread to see what others have done. I really don’t need one, but I wanted to see how to do it more from a academic point.
Any thoughts or comments?
-tp
I am using SQUID with Mikrotik. MT have 3 interfaces.
1 - Connected with user LAN
2 - Connected with SQUID box
3 - WAN
MT is acting as pppoe server. All users dialin , MT marks all HTTP traffic and route it to SQUID BOX (this way I get the client source ip, not the MT ip, benefit is user web activity can be logged as it sometimes necessary and required by law)
All other internet traffic is handled by MT.
My hardware specs are as follows.
Mikrotik x86 = v4.17 x86 / Xeon 3.6Ghz Dual / 2 GB Ram / WD 500 GB Sata Hdd ,
SQUID PROXY = SQUID v2.7 on UBUNTU Karmic Koala v9.10 / Xeon 3.6Ghz Dual / 8 GB Ram / WD 500 GB x3 SATA HDD (2 HDD reserved for Cache), This server acts as a proxy machine for the Mikrotik, It also do URL Filtering blocking ads, it also have ZPH enabled so content available in squid cache should be downloaded at full speed (without package limitation) at user end. It also caching YOUTUBE n other video content using VIDEOCACHE script.
I wouldn’t like to flood the forum by my own stories , as I already have at various posts 
, so keeping the story short, Read more detail at my blog. although its old, since I have made many changes as shown in the network diagram, redesigned the scenario to remove faults and Bottlenecks.
http://aacable.wordpress.com/2011/07/05/a-network-design-glass-line-pvt-ltd-june-2011/