proxy server setup help


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I am going to install linux os for proxy server. The main server running linux will connect 10 other win2k comp to it for internet access. i wanted to know what computer configuration with suitable amount of ram that is needed and which distrubution is good for it. Also i wanted to know is there any howto regarding setting up an proxy server as i am newbie.

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Just curious here, but I took a look at that smoothwall site, and the system requirements.

Does smoothwall run as a GUI app on the local machine? Or is it console only, and serve the admin pages out to configure on a remote PC?

My follow-up to this is pure idle curiosity, but how low of a system can be used to serve as an HTTP/FTP proxy for 10 PCs, as in the original poster's example? That is, could I use a '486 PC running a text-only Linux system with the latest 2.6 kernel and still perform farily well?

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will it act as an proxy server?

i am asking this as in the site it says it can be used as an firewall cant find the proxy thing i am searching

i may be wrong kindly help me

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Yes, I know it can be set up as a proxy server, although I have never done it myself.

However, a quick Google for the right keywords shows some "how to" pages. :)

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