topic Re: linux broad band internet connection in Operating System - Linux

linux broad band internet connection

Baiju Kumar.B_1 — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:52:57 GMT

Dear all,
my client want one setup in linux as follows
they want to install a linux server (redhat 9.0), need to configure broadband internet connection in that server ,configure it as a squid server (linux proxy),with user level access control in that server and broad band usage report from that server,it is through web interface

regards
Baiju Kumar.B

Re: linux broad band internet connection

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:43:48 GMT

Shalom,

I would suggest a supported release of Red Hat. ES 4.4 or CentOS 4.4

The default squid implementation gives you much of what you desire.

SEP

Re: linux broad band internet connection

Ivan Ferreira — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:29:02 GMT

You should use CentOs as menthioned above or Fedora Core, these are "recent versions" of Red Hat (in some way).

Squid basic functionality you get by default, user authentication is done by configuring:

auth_param negotiate program .....

Search in google because there are a lot of options to configure user authentication (PAM, LDAP, Active Directory).

Reports you can get using sarg or srg (Squid report generator) available at sourceforge.net.

Squid administration can be done via webmin.

Re: linux broad band internet connection

dirk dierickx — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:18:35 GMT

if you go for RH9, you're asking for problems.
use a more recent release (fedora) or version with longer support cycle, like centos.