[CentOS] proxy server - ipcop vs CentOS

Wed Aug 16 16:53:54 UTC 2006
David Nalley <davidn at KeyMarkinc.com>

>-----Original Message-----
>From: centos-bounces at centos.org on behalf of Craig White
>Sent: Wed 8/16/2006 11:22 AM
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>Subject: [CentOS] proxy server - ipcop vs CentOS
> 
>I have purchased a used Compaq DL360 which I was going to use as a proxy
>server. Presently, we are using a cheap box with ipcop which is working
>fine but it didn't have much RAM (64MB), etc.
>
>This new box we will want to run squid and perhaps dansguardian for
>filtering (this is a non-profit company) and I'm wondering if I should
>just put ipcop on it or would it be smarter/better to install CentOS 4,
>squid and I see Dag has dansguardian package which suggests that I might
>get more and better options from this.
>
>Anyone have opinions on ipcop vs. CentOS
>
>Craig


Craig, 

For that particular application I would probably stick with ipcop. There are add on packages for dans guardian. IPCop is a pretty stripped down distro, and should run fine on 64M. 


David Nalley
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