Re: [squid-users] Advantages of squid?

2009-02-14 Thread Amos Jeffries
Eric B. wrote: Hi, I'm brand new to squid and have been doing research into it and how i might leverage its power for my application, but am having a lot of difficulty in seeing how it might advantage my setup. I design java applications that run on tomcat servers. Currently our java apps

Re: [squid-users] Advantages of Squid

2008-08-24 Thread Haytham Khouja
Hello, Just install a 64 bit OS (Debian 64bit for my case) and compile from source, ./configure should detect the 64 bit environment On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 6:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Haytham Khouja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh and if you're gonna go

Re: [squid-users] Advantages of Squid

2008-08-24 Thread Haytham Khouja
Hey, I'm was referring to third party tools such as cttproxy, zero patch penalty, tc for different routing capabilities and traffic management. On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Amos Jeffries [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Haytham KHOUJA wrote: Dear Kumar, I've been using Squid in my ISP for the

Re: [squid-users] Advantages of Squid

2008-08-24 Thread Amos Jeffries
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

Re: [squid-users] Advantages of Squid

2008-08-24 Thread Haytham Khouja
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.

RE: [squid-users] Advantages of Squid

2008-08-24 Thread Adam Carter
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

Re: [squid-users] Advantages of Squid

2008-08-23 Thread Haytham Khouja
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

Re: [squid-users] Advantages of Squid

2008-08-23 Thread Amos Jeffries
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

Re: [squid-users] Advantages of Squid

2008-08-23 Thread peng . kyo
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Haytham Khouja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. Hello, How to get a 64bit squid installtion? thanks.

Re: [squid-users] Advantages of Squid

2008-08-21 Thread Amos Jeffries
bijayant kumar wrote: Hello to lists, I was meeting a consultant to an ISP today who plans to implement a caching solution for his network. I guess they are already impressed with Blue Coats which undoubtedly seems to be a very good product which I have not used or seen physically. Being a