Setup squid to use multiple outgoing IP addresses

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Feb 152012
 

Today I want to just give you a pill, but I’m sure that even if is short this article will save a lot of time to someone who, like me, has this requirement.
Having a machine with Linux and various IP (which can be IPv4 and / or ipv6) and a Squid Proxy Server configure your browser to use that proxy on one of these IP and go out from that server with the same IP and not with the default ip .

This can be useful if you have services that require 1 specific IP to be allowed, or if you want to give the proxy server to different people and still be able to trace what they do.
To achieve this we’ll use the ACL, Squid has very good ACL’s (Access Control Lists) built into the squid.conf file, allowing you to lock down or control the access by names, IP’s, networks, time of day, actual day. Remember however that like every firewall the more complicated an ACL is, the slower Squid will be to respond to requests. Continue reading »

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opensource Asset Management software : Uranos

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Jan 072012
 

uranosIn the 3 former articles of this series we have saw OCSInventory, Fusion Inventory and GLPI 3 software that can create an asset inventory with your computers hardware and software.

Today we’ll take a look at another software: Uranos (Unattended Resolution in A Nutshell – OS).

Unattended Resolution in A Nutshell – OS is an open source software that will let you perform Asset Management, Monitoring, Software Distribution,Unattended tasks. It’s free for both personal and commercial use and released under GPL license.

The project it’s active and the last version (at the moment of the writing of this post) it’s the 1.1913 released on 22 December 2011

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Zentyal The Linux Small Business Server

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Aug 182011
 

Zentyal, formerly known as eBox Platform, is a multi-purpose Linux Ubuntu remastered and it’s based on Ubuntu server 10.04 (LTS). It can function as a network gateway, unified threat manager, office server, infrastructure manager, and a unified communications server. The project’s source code is available under terms of the GNU General Public License, as well as under a variety of proprietary agreements. Zentyal is owned and sponsored by a single for-profit firm, the Spanish company eBox Technologies S.L., which holds the copyright to the codebase

The declared goal of this software it’s to be an alternative for small and medium business to Windows.
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Is your company afraid of Linux? (3 of 3)

Continued from : Is your company afraid of Linux? (Part 2 of 3) Fear #4 (Support!): This is where Linux shines. Because of the open nature of the Linux community it is considered to be the most widely supported platform and the most inexpensive. To get professional support for your Microsoft server platform, you have [...]

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Is your company afraid of Linux? (1 of 3)

I was driving down the road thinking about writing a bit about reliable and inexpensive backup solutions, and my thoughts kept getting interrupted with a “giant elephant in the room”, or perhaps we should call it a “Giant Penguin”? So yeah, it became clear to me I needed to tackle the giant elephant first. Clear [...]

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