Linux Squid Proxy Server

Descriptions and Purpose of Lab Exercise

Squid is caching proxy server, which improves the bandwidth and the reponse time by caching the recently requested web pages. Now a days many servers in the world are configured with squid in order to provide high delivery speeds to the clients. Configuring the squid in transparent mode, special configuartion is not required on the client side. All the requests originatinating from client and going to internet on port 80 are automatically  redirected by proxy.  Depending on the requirement we need to configure the squid as transparent or non transparent proxy. This lab aims to enable readers implement a Proxy server in the network so that other users of the LAN can leverage the functionalities of  accessing internet through proxy. Click here for more.