CACHING PROXY
Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator.
source www.squid-cache.org
Multi Interface
Proxy can run at multiple interfaces.
Transparent Proxy
The proxy can be configured as transparent proxy.
FTP Proxy
Integrated FTP proxy that makes use of the defined Access Control Lists.
Authenticators
LDAP (incl. Microsoft Active Directory)
Radius [as of 16.1]
Local user manager
No authentication
Access Control
Fine grained access control, includes:
Subnets
Ports
MIME types
Banned IP’s
Whitelists
Blacklists
Browser/User Agents
Support for blacklists
Traffic Management
The proxy can be combined with the traffic shaper and take full advantage of its shaping features.Additionally it includes its own options:
Maximum download sizeMaximum upload size
Overall bandwidth throttling
Per host bandwidth throttling
User based Access Control
User based Access Control is scheduled for Q1-2016.
Screenshot OPNsense Caching Proxy
Your Next Firewall is Open Source !
OPNsense is an open source, easy-to-use and easy-to-build FreeBSD based firewall and routing platform.
OPNsense is licensed under an Open Source Initiative approved license. OPNsense is and will be available with the simple 2-clause BSD license.
