From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 7 4:48:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.toronto.istar.net (mail1.toronto.istar.net [209.89.75.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6607037BD9D for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 04:48:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from genisis@istar.ca) Received: from ip210.kingston.dialup.canada.psi.net ([154.5.64.210]) by mail1.toronto.istar.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 13LlP6-0004Rw-00; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 07:49:13 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 07:51:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Dru To: Duke Normandin Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Proxy server / squid In-Reply-To: <006301c00009$40e48e40$6ae973d1@odie> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Duke, My favourite site has always been the firewall faq at: http://www.interhack.net/pubs/fwfaq/ good description of what devices at which layers of the OSI model can do what with nasty packets, and explanations of the various terminologies. Also links to other sites and security related mailing lists. If you enjoy this sort of stuff, the firewall-wizards mailing list is highly recommended. Cheers, Dru On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Duke Normandin wrote: > Totally newbie question, so hang on or bail out now.... > > I've read some posts recently which spoke of squid in context of a proxy > server. I'm not learning anything because I don't know what either do. > Anybody know of a URL which delves into _these_ dark secrets? Once I'm > up to speed on the above, I can put it all in context of FBSD. Tia.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message