[squid-users] completely transparent Squid

[Marko Cupać]

On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 09:21:04 -0700 (PDT)
Arkantos <221184 at gmail.com> wrote:

> hello everybody,
> 
> my friend and I, happen to run the neighborhood cable and wifi
> network. Costs are picked up by the users' community, and we get a
> salary for running around.
> 
> we have about 35 users
> 
> we get around 60 mb from the ISP and then we have deployed Inventum
> Unify Cloud MSC for user management (only for login, B/w control and
> URL logging).
> 
> the community is now wanting a caching server.
> 
> i have zeroed in on CentOS+Squid+Webmin
> but we are unable to configure it as a "completely transparent cache"
> 
> can anybody help us to configure?
> we can pay if wanted. but fees should not be astronomical.

If I was to implement transparent proxy for 35 users, I would put it on
edge firewall running OpenBSD + PF + Squid.

There's (quite old but still relevant) howto:
http://www.kernel-panic.it/openbsd/proxy/index.html

Regards,
-- 
Marko Cupać
https://www.mimar.rs/