Red Hat Fedora 5 Unleashed

IN THIS CHAPTER

• What Is a Proxy Server?

• Installing Squid

• Configuring Clients

• Access Control Lists

• Specifying Client IP Addresses

• Sample Configurations

• Reference

There are two things in this world that you can never have enough of: time and bandwidth. Fedora comes with a proxy serverSquidthat enables you to cache web traffic on your server so that websites load faster and users consume less bandwidth.