[K12OSN] Best solution for Internet access, control, and caching?

[Almquist Burke]

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On Dec 17, 2008, at 11:54 AM, Joseph Bishay wrote:

> Hi Tim,
>
> Thanks for your reply.  I spent some time last night after work poking
> around the network and hardware and this is what I have available:
>
> 1) SMC 8013WG Gateway router
> (http://www.speedguide.net/broadband-view.php?hw=139) for our net
> connection
> 2) D-Link 604 router 4-port router (http://www.d-link.ca/products/? 
> pid=62)
>
With the SMC and the Squid box, why do you need the D-Link?


> 3) 8-port 10/100 switch
> 4) 16 port gigabit switch
> 5) 6 computers that need to be networked and have Internet access (Ex:
> window XP machines, a Linux server, backup machine, etc.)
> 6) 1 LTSP server with 20 clients
> 7) a single Pentium III I can use as the squid/proxy/filtering machine
>
> So to make sure I understand your recommendation I would go:
>
> Internet -> SMC Gateway router -> d-link router -> squid/proxy machine
> -> 8-port switch -> LTSP net NIC and the 6 net-only machines
>
> AND
>
> LTSP client NIC -> gigabit switch -> thin clients.
>
> Part of what you said in your email that I didn't understand was  
> when you said:
>
>> (firewall rules applied).  Currently all our Windows and Apple
>> computers are in the private network of the LTSP servers with IP
>> forwarding.  I currently run DansGuardian with Squid and Squid Guard
>
> Does this mean that they are running off of the LTSP client NIC?  How
> is that possible?
>
> Thank you
> Joseph
>
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