Just in the interest of science, I just ran a Hulu SNL clip and monitored my PIII firewall with the program top. The processor was always above 98% idle; top often showed 100% idle. If memory serves, a PIII firewall can handle a T1 line. My firewall is not running squid. I haven't bothered with squid as I think it would pay only when different systems access the same content at nearly the same time; not likely for my network. The SNL clip played well, although the content wasn't that good, the latter probably not the fault of the firewall.
Onward. -- Patrick Timlick On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Michael Robinson <plu...@robinson-west.com>wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 06:43 -0800, Michael Ewan wrote: > > > > ----- "Michael Robinson" <plu...@robinson-west.com> wrote: > > > > > Has anyone been able to watch a movie on Hulu through a squid proxy? > > > > > > It seems to effectively filter an Internet connection that one has to > > > use a proxy outfitted with say Dansguardian. Great, problem is some > > > sites seem to be incompatible with Squid. There is Procon Latte, but > > > that is not an enforceable approach and in general this plugin is far > > > too inaccurate for my liking. > > > > > > Has anyone done server side proxyless filtering? The only proxyless > > > filtering approach I know of is to use iptables to block Net access > > > which is not what I'm needing. > > > > > > I wonder if my Pentium III server is just simply too slow to serve a > > > movie from Hulu via Squid? > > > > > > > Are you using caching with Squid, if so that might be your problem. Have > you tried telling Squid not to cache that server address, I believe there is > a nocache option. Also proxying streaming video is counter productive, and > your poor Pentium III is way underpowered for any Web 2.0 traffic. > > Thanks for the tip. Speaking of processing power and memory, how much > of both does one need to cache a movie streamed from Hulu successfully? > Will dansguardian work with caching turned off? Servers tend to be > older computers from the standpoint that it is common to run them for > a long time. An old computer is practically speaking any computer that > is currently in use by someone. That's a technological reality which > has it's pluses and minuses. The latest quad core technology doesn't > seem that expensive, but what would it give me to upgrade say my > Internet gateway from a PIII to a quad core system and what would that > upgrade cost? > > I guess the more common question is when will Squid not work and why? > The use a newer computer than a PIII seems to answer that question > partially. A more in depth discussion of when will Squid not work > and why could be very helpful to me. > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug