Squid+Privoxy or Snort?

[TM4526 at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/12/04 1:22:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
bsilver at chrononomicon.com writes:
> The issue with proxies is that they are a drag on your network; using
> squid as a firewall only isnt very smart. If you are already using it
> fine. But on a large network you are better off using a firewall or 
> some
> sort of bandwidth management like the stuff on etinc.com.

>I thought his issue was more on finding internal systems having 
>problems and blocking the specific sites from getting hit.
>
>The proxy should speed up access if the same sites are being hit, as 

The "proxy" doesn't "speed access", the cache does. So using 
squidguard without squid enabled, or privoxy or SNORT which are
not caches, is what I was referring to.

proxy != Cache

which is I think is your confusion.