Squid Proxy Server application case multi-exit multi-user authentication for Internet access

BKJIA exclusive Article] recently, a customer helped a friend pick up a small project. The customer rented several servers for their U.S. machines and then wanted to use proxy servers for Internet access, for customers in China. The specific requirements are as follows:

1. The customer's server has multiple egress IP addresses

2. The customer wants to use the proxy server for Internet access through authentication.

3. The customer wants to access the network from different egress ip addresses through different Authenticated Users

4. Hide proxy information and real Internet ip addresses

The customer's requirements are clear and well organized according to the above list. The purpose of this article is to introduce the ideas and steps for the author to achieve this requirement.

Author profile: Liu Xiaozhao, a mosquito blog), a system engineer of a state-owned enterprise in the communications industry, familiar with the use, deployment, and combination of various mainstream open-source software, as well as the mainstream website architecture. Currently, we focus on system architecture and system optimization.

I use Squid to implement this requirement. Squid is an excellent agent server software used in Linux, it can also be used on AIX, Digital Unix, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Irix, NetBSD, Nextstep, SCO, Solaris, and other systems.