July 13, 2004

NetSQUID good

I’ve got a decent semi-auto install of NetSQUID.

I’ve got the install script debugged decently and burned to CD. All the later customization can probably be easily enough done with the update scripts. At this point we can install Slackware 9.1 with the tagfile floppy, chroot to /mnt on the new system, mount the NetSQUID CD, and then run install.sh from there, answering customization questions as appropriate. It sets up the update script to run every 15 minutes and pull updates (if they’ve changed) from SHANTI and install them. Since the updates are just tarballs based from /, we have the ability to modify just about anything on the system fairly easily.

I think we’re going to try putting the NetSQUID test box on the link between the Lilly Alpine and the Black Diamond soon to see how well it holds up.

Posted by Rowan Littell at July 13, 2004 04:15 PM