Squid+Privoxy or Snort?

[Bart Silverstrim]

On Nov 12, 2004, at 2:22 PM, TM4526 at aol.com wrote:

> 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.

Sorry, I hadn't run across anyone running squid in a non-caching mode 
so I didn't specify that.  SquidGuard is purely a filter and it can't 
run without squid, to my knowledge.  But I could be wrong.