Re: [squid-users] squid in ISP

Thanks Ryan
Any idea to filter some abnormal traffic/attrack from clients ?
Now, I am testing it with a layer4 switch. In most situation, it works fine.
However, I suspect some unknown port 80 traffic make it unstable.
Any idea?
Thanks

--- On Fri, 7/11/08, Rhino <rhino_at_machlink.com> wrote:

> From: Rhino <rhino_at_machlink.com>
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] squid in ISP
> To: lsk_at_rocketmail.com
> Cc: squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
> Date: Friday, July 11, 2008, 1:56 PM
> Siu-kin Lam wrote:
> > Dear all
> >
> > Any experience using squid as caching in ISP
> environment ?
> >
> >
> > thanks
> > SK
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> I'm sure there's much larger ISPs out there and
> been using it much longer;
> just passing along our info.
> We're a small ISP serving around 10k dialup,dsl,cable
> modem and MAN subs
> via a dual-homed to different ISP BGP WAN.
> We loaded squid on a quad core linux box with around 1.2Tb
> disk
> capacity and 32Gb RAM, using a Cisco 4948 switch and WCCP2
> to transparently redirect to Squid.
> There were some major hurdles along the way
> mostly getting the 4948 to pass the L2 WCCP traffic -
> 2 IOS bugs and a year in the process) but once that worked
> and we got our IPTABLES set up properly, transparent
> redirection
> has been working quite well.
> Some tweaks needed to our Squid config, but with the help
> of this list
> - particularly Henrik and Amos' posts - at this point
> we're very
> encouraged by the performance and bandwidth savings
> we're seeing on the
> system which has only been truly active for around 3 weeks
> now.
> Again, we're a pretty small shop - so when our old
> NetApp Netcache
> was no longer able to adequately handle the load, we needed
> an
> effective, minimal-cost solution which this is
> demonstrating to be.
> Hope that helps.
> -Ryan

      
Received on Sat Jul 12 2008 - 16:40:14 MDT