RE: How many Squid ? How to organize them ?

Hi,
I'm not an expert but here my comments.
Here we plan to use two squid server, with DNS round robin.
Client Browser are configured with an autoconfiguration file. (.pac).
Nicolas Kamiski

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De: Olivier GOSSELET [SMTP:ogosselet@cirb.irisnet.be]
> Date: mercredi 24 juin 1998 09:04
> À: squid-users@ircache.net
> Objet: How many Squid ? How to organize them ?
>
> We are going to be ISP for 600 school.
>  
> These are the main data of the project :
>  
> All this school will be connected by ISDN 64 kbit/s line leading to a
> "maximum" bandwith usage of  3.8 MBit/s
> We have more or less 10 PC to connect by school leading to a "maximum"
> client number of 6000
> We are obliged to use a proxy for porn filtering. We have a
> interdiction list of 17000 adresses.
> We plan to use the cache to save our 2MBit/s internet connection.
>   [Nicolas KAMISKI] I think Squid is not featured to block 17000
> adresses.
> We want to use Linux as our operating system for the Squid machine.
> The hardware configuration will be something like a Pentium II 333 MHz
> - 128 MBytes - HD ~ 5 GB (Ultra DMA or SCSI ?) but you can make
> comment. 
>   [Nicolas KAMISKI] Scsi without a doubt.
> The question is : " How many of these machine to handle the potential
> load and Is it a good way to organize them in Round Robin DNS pool ? "
>   [Nicolas KAMISKI] Begin with two squid server, and analyze the
> load.
> The school connection will be progressive so we could begin with only
> one machine and then increase the number according to objective
> critera but for budget planning it would be interesting to know how
> much machine we should buy.
>   [Nicolas KAMISKI] The advantage of begin with two squid server is
> to have a backup of the proxy service.
> Thanks to make me know about your own experiment.
>  
> Olivier
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Received on Wed Jun 24 1998 - 00:44:24 MDT