[Voyage-linux] Re: proxy auth options?

[Marco Zollinger]

Frank Parker <mr.frank.parker at ...> writes:


> 
> The question is which configuration would require fewer CPU and memory
> resources to run?  In the first option, I know cntlm and tinyproxy are
> minimal but it would require a basic samba config also and samba can
> be a resource hog.  In the second option, I don't need the extra
> headache of cntlm/Samba but Squid can be a resource hog.  Hmmm...
> 
> Thoughts?
> 

Take a look at dante; light,  no caching, easy to set up. Socks5 funtionality 
makes it an allrounder (I'm using it for IRC DCC transfers). 
At full line speed (5Mb/s) CPU is around 16% on my Alix3d2.
apt-get install dante-server


Marco