[squid-users] Redirecting certain sites with a forward option?

2012-05-25 Thread - Mikael -
I have a few teachers how want a group of students to be forwarded to a page for certain sites. The page would then have forwarding option to view the original site. They are trying to add around 100 URL's to this list. For example, if student tries to access loc.gov site, they would be redirected

Re: [squid-users] Commercial Squid tweak speeds things up significantly!

2011-11-29 Thread - Mikael -
Thanks, Amos. I don't understand why their implementation is many times faster than mine unless my Squid is horribly (mis)configured. Is there anything in this config that would slow down Squid? http_port 3128 refresh_pattern http://.*\.adobe\.com/ 0 80% 20160 reload-into-ims refresh_pattern

Re: [squid-users] Commercial Squid tweak speeds things up significantly!

2011-11-29 Thread - Mikael -
to get to the bottom of it... On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:32 PM, - Mikael - funactivit...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Amos. I don't understand why their implementation is many times faster than mine unless my Squid is horribly (mis)configured. Is there anything in this config that would slow down

Re: [squid-users] Commercial Squid tweak speeds things up significantly!

2011-11-27 Thread - Mikael -
That  sounds like heap LRU  policy, it is not fear to compare a squid out of the box with a solution that has a tunning  in parameters. Pesonally, i've develop an algorithm to save you 30% of bandwith with some tunnings based on statistical measures.  So it is easy,  you dont have to waste

Re: [squid-users] Commercial Squid tweak speeds things up significantly!

2011-11-26 Thread - Mikael -
Could you name this product and point at some documentation it has about this process? Its called Untangle. Its a Debian based distro with Squid based web caching app. FAQ about caching app with some tech details is available at: wiki.untangle.com/index.php/Web_Cache_FAQs

[squid-users] Commercial Squid tweak speeds things up significantly!

2011-11-25 Thread - Mikael -
Our school dept wants to buy a commercial proxy (Squid based) which seems to work a whole lot faster than the standard installation (of Squid). The performance difference between the two Squid's seems to be in how commercial Squid implementation is handling a missed object. From what I understand

Re: [squid-users] Question about configuration directive http_port

2011-10-17 Thread - Mikael -
What are the benefits of having Squid on the LAN? Our firewall (Sonicwall NSA) explicitly forbids proxies on the LAN for some reason. The firewall will forward all traffic to Squid only if its on public IP address. This is how we are setup right now: (LAN) - (Sonicwall firewall, NAT, DPI, DHCP)

[squid-users] Am I doing this right?

2011-10-17 Thread - Mikael -
I'm not sure what to make out of these stats. Is there anything here that I should pay attention to and possible correct the config file to do it better? Squid Object Cache: Version 3.1.6 Start Time: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:39:04 GMT Current Time: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:20:31 GMT Connection

[squid-users] Question about configuration directive http_port

2011-10-16 Thread - Mikael -
What is the best http_port directive to use in this scenario? Squid has a public IP. All clients are behind NAT firewall with public IP. Firewall sends all NATed client traffic to Squid. Squid fetches the site, returns the hit back to the firewall which then forwards it to appropriate clients.

[squid-users] Please help me with refresh statements

2011-10-15 Thread - Mikael -
Is there a cleaner and more effective way to use these refresh_patterns? This is what I have so far. I would love to cache more of FLV content and specific sites that get lots of traffics, such as yahoo and news.google.com refresh_pattern -i \.flv$ 10080 90% 99 ignore-no-cache

[squid-users] Squid latency?

2011-10-14 Thread - Mikael -
Two quick questions: I have big latency on the Squid box. It takes about 5 seconds from the time I enter URL address until the page loads. When the page loads it loads very quickly. DNS queries to WAN are 2ms, average ISP tracert and ping latencies are around 20ms. Tracert and ping from LAN to