> Well I thought of squid bcos of caching abilities,I am sure I would not want to 
> tighten anything as all ports will have to be open and hence NAT is very good at 
> that,as I have tried it on my small network (one Linux Box,with one winXP Cleint).
> The Idea of having three networks is to divide the load on the Network as all 
> requests from 50 Nodes on one network will come at Eth1 which will get NATTed thru 
> Eth0(the Public Interface or the  ISP).By having three networks the load will get 
> dividded between Eth1,Eth2 and Eth3.
> Is there anything else you need to know from me ?Pls let me Know, I will try to 
> explain.
>

squid sounds like a good idea.  I'd setup squid with transparent proxying,
along with NAT for other traffic.  Since your ISP link is 128K, I see no
purpose in dividing your lan into multiple segments.   The 128K link will
be your limiting factor, the 100 mbit lan will always be waiting on that.


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