RE: [squid-users] Is Squid the right tool for my situation?

I don't use Solaris but I can tell you based on what you told us that
Squid might not be the best approach. You may just want to go with
network address translation to forward connections at the IP level. Then
on the OSX box you would just set the connection's default gateway to
the IP of the Solaris machine. Search for guides on setting up Solaris
as a router.

Of course that's providing you can even do that without superuser
privileges, I guess. Maybe Squid is your only hope?

Take care.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Nesbit [mailto:alnesbit@discus.anu.edu.au]
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 9:50 PM
To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: [squid-users] Is Squid the right tool for my situation?

Hi, could somebody please tell me if Squid is appropriate for my
needs...

I have an account on a Solaris 8 machine which has full access to the
Internet and no web proxy/cache installed.

I also have a laptop computer (running MacOSX) connected to the same
network. This machine only has access to other hosts on the same
network.

What I'd like to do is install a web proxy in my account on the Solaris
8
machine so that I can get web access from my OSX machine.

I don't have superuser privileges on the Solaris 8 machine, and I'm not
really interested in caching, just proxying.

Can I do this using Squid? And if so, is there anything special I need
to
know?

Thanks in advance,

Andrew.
Received on Thu Dec 12 2002 - 23:30:35 MST