Re: Cisco 2501 & Squid 1.1.9

Recently, George M. Ellenburg talked about "Cisco 2501 & Squid 1.1.9", and said
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> Is it possible to set up some sort of NAT in a Cisco 2501 Router to
> have the router blindly redirect all packets destined for port 80 to
> our proxy server on port 3128 so our users don't have to specify a
> proxy server address in their browsers?

Alteon has added such a feature into their AceSwitch 180 line
of fast ethernet switches; it has the advantage of doing the
redirection at layer 2, so there's no IP "hop" associated with
the redirection, unlike with a router-based solution. It's
pretty cool. It'll even do load-balancing among several
squid caches with the redirection!

Definitely worth checking out!

Matt
 
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> "Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly. It just happens to be
> very selective about who it decides to make friends with."
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