IT3010
Network Design & Management
3rd Year, 1st Semester
Report
Assignment
Submitted to
Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the
Bachelor of Science Special Honors Degree in Information Technology
08-05-2019
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previously submitted for a degree or diploma in any university, and to the best of my
knowledge and belief it does not contain any material previously published or written by
another person, except where due reference is made in text.
Registration Number : IT17148214
Name : E.G Janith Supun
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Table of Figures
Figure 1.1: Command “ sudo yum update –y ”
Figure 1.2: Commands to configure EPEL repo
Figure 1.3: Command to install Squid
Figure 1.4: Squid Installation Complete
Figure 1.5: Start squid
Figure 1.6: Status of Squid
Figure 1.7: Enable Firewall
Figure 1.7: View IP
Figure 1.8: Squid.conf
Figure 1.10: Command to Restart Squid
Figure 2.1: Go to preferences
Figure 2.2: Enter the Proxy address and port number
Figure 2.3: courseweb.sllit.lk
Figure 2.4: Command to open the Access.log file
Figure 2.5: Access log
Figure 3.1: Uncommented and Unadjusted line
Figure 3.2: Change to 1MB
Figure 3.3: Stop squid service
Figure 3.4: stop squid command
Figure 3.5: Remove files from the directory
Figure 3.6: Make a new directory
Figure 3.7: Change file owner
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Figure 3.8 : Set file security context
Figure 3.9: Creating swap directories
Figure 3.10: Start squid service
Figure 3.11: cached files
Figure 3.12: Cached size
Figure 3.13: Cache replacement policy
Tables
Table 3-1: Size of web pages
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1. Setup and Configure the Proxy Server
Install and Update Squid
Update the server
Figure 1.1: Command “ sudo yum update –y ”
Configure EPEL repo
Figure 1.2: Commands to configure EPEL repo
Install Squid
Figure 1.3: Command to install Squid
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After downloading all the necessary files, Squid installation will be completed
Figure 1.4: Squid Installation Complete
After installing squid , Start the squid server by following commands
Figure 1.5: Start squid
Then check the status of Squid
Figure 1.6: Status of Squid
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Configure Squid
Enable Firewall
Figure 1.7: Enable Firewall
View IP address
192.168.44.131/24
Figure 1.7: View IP
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Edit Squid.conf File
Open the Squid.conf file
Figure 1.8: Squid.conf
Add the eno16777736’s IP address to the ACL list
Figure 1.9: Edit squid.conf
After that , Restart Squid
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Figure 1.10: Command to Restart Squid
2. Configure Firefox Proxy settings
Open menu > Preferences > Network Proxy > setting
Figure 2.1: Go to preferences
Enter the HTTP proxy address and the port number
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Figure 2.2: Enter the Proxy address and port number
Check the internet conncetion through the proxy by entering following url
http://courseweb.sliit.lk/
Figure 2.3: courseweb.sllit.lk
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Then check the server’s access.log file
Figure 2.4: Command to open the Access.log file
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We can see the courseweb url inside the Access.log
Figure 2.5: Access log
3. Cinfigure Caching
Calculate the web page sizes to determine the cache folder size
Web URL Page Size (KB)
Table 3-1 :Size of
http://www.bmw.com/com/en/ 0.23 web pages
http://www.mit.edu.au 167.34 Then open the
http://courseweb.sliit.lk/ 49.24 squid.conf file and
http://www.baidu.com 14.27 uncomment
following line and
http://europa.eu 11.3
modify.
http://digg.com 338.82
http://www.worldbank.org 190.58
http://apache.org 79.36
http://www.networkadvertising.org 0.3
http://www.fortune.com 163.19
Total 1014.658KB
https://www.un.org/ 8.27
Total 1022.928KB(0.998MB)
Figure 3.1: Uncommented and Unadjusted line
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Change the amount of disk space on cache directory to 1MB
Figure 3.2: Change to 1MB
Create cache directories
Figure 3.3: Stop squid service
Figure 3.4: stop squid command
Figure 3.5: Remove files from the directory
Figure 3.6: Make a new directory
Figure 3.7: Change file owner
Figure 3.8 : Set file security context
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Figure 3.9: Creating swap directories
Figure 3.10: Start squid service
Then restart Squid and visit a website and check the cache directory.
Command : ls /var/spool/squid/00/00
Figure 3.11 : cached files
After going to few websites ,check the cached file size.
Figure 3.12 : Cached size
Edit the squid.conf file to add a cache replacement policy.
Figure 3.13 : Cache replacement policy
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