[squid-users] Squid with more than 128 ports?

[Antony Stone]

On Thursday 10 December 2020 at 13:02:19, roee klinger wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> We have a few Squid proxy servers with a total of around 400 ports

What do you mean by that?  What are you using 400 ports for?

> We have decided that we want to add a cloud instance in the middle of the
> connections, that will authenticate users and only then send them to the
> squid instance.

What authentication method / protocol do you want to use?

> Is it a smart idea to use Squid for this use case or just use a different
> proxy software that doesn't have this limitation?

I think the best starting point is to ask what sort of authentication you want 
to perform (ie: what is the authoritative system which holds the information 
about who can authenticate and who cannot), then you can decide on the best 
software to use to do that in front of Squid.


Antony.

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