Re: [squid-users] Performance of Squid ?

On 11/22/06, Noc Phibee <noc@phibee.net> wrote:
> anyone can say me what is the best choice in equipment for put a Squid
> with Active Directory authentification + squidguard for:

For AD authentication, you'll use LDAP helper, lots of docs on this.
.
> for 700 simultaneous user
> and
> for 5000 simultaneous user
>
> How many server you thinks that i put for best performance ?

N+1. Load-balance across them if you'd like.
Don't use RAID, use many physical drives.
Choose a Unix-Like OS which you already know well.

> he have a howto for squid in large configuration ?
> we can add a Antivirus scan of the flow ?

AV scanning degrades throughput, and even with scanning in the proxy
you will still need to deploy a local scanner on every Windows client,
if only to catch viral payloads inside HTTPS content.

Kevin
Received on Wed Nov 22 2006 - 16:55:13 MST