> > Problem: We have several hundred users that will be using this to proxy > to the internet (no caching just authentication). With lots of users on > the system the traffic gets pretty bogged down going through the one > NIC. This server has 4 NICS in it and is there a way to balance the > traffic over these multiple NIC's? Thanks for help in advance > Trust me , you are 'over-managing' a future SQUID based setup, even with 5000 users, with average internet access profile. SQUID >cannot< saturate NIC's on modern light server hardware. M.