Hi, I apologise for my late response, thiss is due to poor health. Yes i did try your idea of putting the squid as a direct parent proxy but that was putting a lot of strain on the processor and Ram! Thats why i managed to eventually get it up and running as a non-transparent and left it as such! -- View this message in context: http://squid-web-proxy-cache.1019090.n4.nabble.com/My-squid-has-a-few-problems-tp4664448p4664458.html Sent from the Squid - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.