I'm working in a school at the moment and we use a dansguardian proxy server... all is working fine exsept it is a very very old install and is slow.

(10 meg file takes 60 seconds to download but threw a diffrent (windows) proxy server it takes 20)

I am building a new Dansguardian proxy server... so far so good, i have everything installed and working. exsept i canno get any internet connectivaty.

1 network card with 2 addresses. 10.1.0.250 on subnet 255.255.0.0 and 172.20.16.250 on subnet 255.255.255.0

We are on a county wide WAN and our router (172.20.16.254) is the only way to gain internet access.

i cannt get the server to access the inetrenet even tho it has an address on the correct range, and i definatley cannot get proxy access threw squid : 3128 or threw dansguardian :8080.


Any idea? any simple setup issues that i have missed?

No one can help?

How do you set squid up normaley? get an internet connection over a LAN?

So are you saying that even when not going through the proxy you cannot reach the internet?


What system are you trying to set the proxy up on?

Correct, i had 1 network card with a 10.1 address as its primary address (facing network) and a 172.10.16 address(to internet) as its "Virtual" address. I could not gain internet access threw the server (Mandrake 10.1) or threw the proxy server.


HOWEVER, i descided to start again and make the NIC primary address a 172.20.16 address (to internet) and the secondary address a 10.1 address (to network). this gave me access to internet localey and threw a proxy.

Since then i have managed to setup dansguardian and got it working.


Onley problem now is i cannot restart or stop the dansguardian service. every time i try i get the replay "it appears i'm already running" even if i try to stop it

any ideas on that one ?