Firewall and Proxy Server HOWTO

• Index
• Introduction
• Understanding Firewalls
• Firewall Architecture
• Setting up the Linux Filtering Firewall
• Software requirements
• Preparing the Linux system
• IP filtering setup (IPFWADM)
• IP filtering setup (IPCHAINS)
• Installing a Transparent SQUID proxy
• Installing the TIS Proxy server
• The SOCKS Proxy Server
• Advanced Configurations
• Making Management Easy
• Defeating a Proxy Firewall
• APPENDEX A - Example Scripts
• APPENDEX B - An VPN RC Script for RedHat

9. Installing a Transparent SQUID proxy

The squid proxy is available at http://squid.nlanr.net/.

The SQUID developers provide RedHat and Debian packages. If you can, use one of these.