[Cialug] Proxy Server

Jeffrey Ollie jeff at ocjtech.us
Wed Jul 18 10:08:15 CDT 2012


On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:52 AM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> Any recommendations for a proxy server that could be customer managed? I
> normally use Squid, but, obviously, editing a text file may be problematic.
>
> Prefer SuSE, as it's pretty simple to build an appliance in SuSE Studio and
> deploy on Xen. I see some GateKeeper appliances in Studio with Shorewall -
> would that be a good starting point, or ??

F5 makes a great load balancer/proxy server, however I don't know that
managing a F5 through it's web GUI is any easier than editing a Squid
config.  F5's load balancers have a bazillion config options because
they can do darn near everything...

Oh, and you'll pay Cadillac prices too.

-- 
Jeff Ollie


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