Re: squid

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I'm curious how many of you are running a squid proxy, and on what hardware under what bandwidth.
> 
> We're sharing a 56k modem right now at work (its either that or
> buy a t1, and isdn doesn't make much sense right now) and it works
> fine, but I'm curious about caching our surfing.

I use squid at work, T1, 100-200 users on a P2-400, 192MB.
Upgrading to the P2-400 from a dual (SMP) PPro-200 made surfing
noticeably faster.

I also run it at home for 2 users on my P2-450 256MB, dialup 26.6K
(is also my personal workstation running a lot of other stuff).

Plus on my laptop P2-266, dialup / T1, where there are no other clients.
It makes Netscape a lot more stable running squid for localhost only!!!

> Our current email(imap)/masq. box:
> 166MMX Pentium
> 32mb ram
> 4gig ide HD
> 56k isa modem
> 3com pci nic 3c905
> BSWare 6.0 #21.0 w/kernel 2.2.14

I recommend adding memory.

Please note there is a squid presentation at KLUG on Jan 30.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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