Re: [squid-users] Advantages of Squid

tc is a linux tool to create network classes that you can
route/mangle/prioritize, it's not Squid specific and won't work with
any other OS, but i used it once in a setup to route TCP_REFRESH_HIT
objects to a different (much faster link), so they can have a faster
If-Modified-Since request/reply. pretty tricky and complex

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz> wrote:
> Haytham Khouja wrote:
>>
>> Hey,
>> I'm was referring to third party tools such as cttproxy, zero patch
>> penalty, tc for different routing capabilities and traffic management.
>
> Okay.
> TPROXY and ZPH are integrated into the current 2.7+ and upcoming 3.1+
> releases.
> 'tc' I'm not aware of, any pointers where further info can be found?
>
> Amos
>
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Haytham KHOUJA wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear Kumar,
>>>> I've been using Squid in my ISP for the past 2 years, and here are the
>>>> advantages:
>>>> - Getting a super/kickass hardware with Squid costs 10 times less than
>>>> a BlueCoat, so if you have the budget of a BlueCoat, you can get
>>>> 10xSquids, imagine the things you can do in terms of Load
>>>> Balancing/HTPC/ICP/Fail Over so on and so forth.
>>>> - In a medium/large ISP (10 000 concurrent to 60 000 concurrent) i
>>>> found that 1 machine can handle easily 80-100 Mbit, the more drives
>>>> you have on that machine, the more you'll be able to reply fast that's
>>>> why i use SAS drives 15 000 RPM. You can also get machines with 16 GB
>>>> (or more) of RAM and put all your cache in the RAM, but in this case,
>>>> i'll set the largest caching size to be around 1024 KB. Oh and if
>>>> you're gonna go above 4GB of RAMs, consider 64bit, actually, it's not
>>>> much of a consideration, it's a must.
>>>> - You get to learn and know how caching really works, you're not just
>>>> configuring a black box from a fancy web page.
>>>> - You get to upgrade/patch your system to suit your needs (there are a
>>>> few useful patches for Squid out there)
>>>
>>> Side note:
>>> If you care to mention the ones that you find most useful and not
>>> already
>>> in Squid. We (the developers) would be very interested in knowing what
>>> needs
>>> adding to make squid an easier install and usage for everybody.
>>>
>>> Amos
>>> --
>>> Please use Squid 2.7.STABLE4 or 3.0.STABLE8
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> Amos
> --
> Please use Squid 2.7.STABLE4 or 3.0.STABLE8
>

-- 
Sincerely,
Haytham EL-KHOUJA
haytham_at_khouja.net