Squid Installation as Tranparent Proxy

How to install Squid Proxy server on CentOS 5 Linux server

Squid proxy server is primarily designed to run on Linux / Unix-like type systems. Squid is known ad high-performance proxy caching server for http Web clients, it is compatible with HTTP FTP, gopher, and HTTP data objects. Unlike other traditional caching servers or software, Squid can handles all requests in a single, non-blocking, I/O-driven process. Squid keeps especially hot objects store in CACHE MEMORY, caches DNS lookups, supports non-blocking DNS lookups, and implements negative caching of failed requests.




Install Squid proxy server on CentOS 5.X / RedHat 5



You can use yum command as follows for installing Squid Automatically from internet