[SoaS] Limited Internet Access for SOAS

[James Cameron]

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 08:15:18AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> Not in the SoaS image. SoaS is designed to run on netbooks, squid is a
> daemon that should run on a server, it also creates a massive
> directory structure that will cause issues on liveUSB keys and not
> really run at all on a live cd.

This argument is invalid, because Squid can easily be configured to
proxy only, without caching anything, and without requiring a massive
directory structure.

http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/ConfiguringSquid#Can_I_make_Squid_proxy_only.2C_without_caching_anything.3F

It does, however, cost about 5Mb of memory, which can easily become a
threat to smooth operation on particularly small systems.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/