Configuration of Microsoft ISA Proxy Server and Linux Squid Proxy Server

By Dr. Hidaia Mahmood Alassouli

The paper concerns about basic Microsoft ISA server and Linux Squid Server configuration As a lot of technicians switch between ISA server and Squid server, I decided to write this paper to present some reference when configuring ISA and Squid. There a lot of issues that not covered, and you can go to the manual of ISA server and Squid server for detailed configuration of ISA and Squid. The paper is composed from two parts 1.Microsoft ISA server 2004 Configuration2.Linux Squid Server ConfigurationNote that, this work was done without proper simulation, because of the lack of resources, as testing firewall configuration requires many computers, with one of them should have many network cards. Also the ISA server is not used in the computer center now.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dr. Hidaia Mahmood Alassouli
• Release date: Jun 23, 2020
• ISBN: 9783969174012

Dr. Hidaia Mahmood Alassouli

I am Dr. Hidaia Mahmood Mohamed Alassouli. I completed my PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Czech Technical University by February 2003, and my M. Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Bahrain University by June 1995. I completed also one study year of most important courses in telecommunication and computer engineering courses in Islamic university in Gaza. So, I covered most important subjects in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Telecommunications Engineering during my study. My nationality is Palestinian from Gaza Strip.I obtained a lot of certified courses in MCSE, SPSS, Cisco (CCNA), A+, Linux.I worked as Electrical, Telecommunicating and Computer Engineer in a lot of institutions. I worked also as a computer networking administrator. I had considerable undergraduate teaching experience in several types of courses in many universities. I handled teaching the most important subjects in Electrical and Telecommunication and Computer Engineering. I could publish a lot of papers a top-tier journals and conference proceedings, besides I published a lot of books in Publishing and Distribution houses.I wrote a lot of important Arabic articles on online news websites. I also have my own magazine website that I publish on it all my articles: http://www.anticorruption.000space.comI am an Author publishing books on kdp.amazon.comand many other book stores such as Google, Apple.com, writinglife.kobo.com, Lulu.com, feiyr.com, blurb.com, bookrix.com, barnesandnoble.com, notionpress.com, ingramspark.com and others . My personal website: http://www.hidaia-alassouli.000space.comMy Amazon Author Central: https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B07BH5HS7LEmail: [e-mail]

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Configuration of Microsoft ISA Proxy Server and Linux Squid Proxy Server

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Dr. Hidaia Mahmood Alassouli

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1. OVERVIEW

The paper concerns about basic Microsoft ISA server and Linux Squid Server configuration  As a lot of  technicians switch between ISA server and Squid server, I decided to write this paper to present some reference when configuring ISA and Squid. There a lot of issues that not covered, and you can go to the manual of ISA server and Squid server for detailed configuration of ISA and Squid. The paper is composed from two parts

Microsoft ISA server 2004 Configuration

Linux Squid Server Configuration

Note that, this work was done without proper simulation, because of the lack of resources, as testing firewall configuration requires many computers, with one of them should have many network cards. Also the ISA server is not used in the computer center now.

KEYWORDS:

Internet Security Acceleration Server, ISA Server, Squid Server, Proxy, Firewall.

2. MICROSOFT ISA SERVER 2004

2.1 MAIN OPERATION:

All of the network rules and access rules make up the firewall policy. The firewall policy is applied in the following way:

1. A user using a client computer sends a request for a resource located on the Internet.

2. If the request comes from a Firewall Client computer, the user is transparently authenticated using Kerberos or NTLM if domain authentication is configured. If the user cannot be transparently authenticated, ISA Server requests the user credentials. If the user request comes from a Web proxy client, and the access rule requires authentication, ISA Server requests the user credentials. If the user request comes from a SecureNAT client, the user is not authenticated, but all other network and access rules are still applied.

3. ISA Server checks the network rules to verify that the two networks are connected. If no network relationship is defined between the two networks,

the request is refused.

4. If the network rules define a connection