[squid-users] Help with using Squid proxy and VPN at the same time.

Peter Hucker peter at hucker.plus.com
Mon Feb 20 03:18:37 UTC 2023


On Mon, 20 Feb 2023 02:21:52 -0000, Amos Jeffries <squid3 at treenet.co.nz> wrote:

> On 20/02/2023 10:26 am, Peter Hucker wrote:
>> I use a Squid proxy just for Boinc (I have 8 PCs and it caches the
>> downloads which all 8 machines get (large data files). I also use a
>> VPN. I want to tell the VPN to not put Squid through it (as for some
>> reason Boinc servers hate VPNs). I can tell the VPN to exclude certain
>> apps by giving it the name of the executable. But what executable in
>> Squid actually connects to the network?
>
> The squid binary name is 'squid'.

Odd, I told Ivacy VPN to use split tunneling and not put "C:\Squid\bin\squid.exe" through the proxy.  Boinc is still sluggish.  Can I tell from the Squid logs if it's using the VPN?


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