Asim Ahmed Khan wrote:
> thanks tom for your help. But i would like to mention the fact that i
> tried these rules on a single test computer first. There they worked
> fine or you can say i couldn't test as much as 100 users with all sorts
> of traffic needs can test!  All problems started except a few after
> opening it for general users. In transparent proxy i had too many issues
> of net access braeking too often. But on non-transparent atleast for
> general users internet is working fine.

That's interesting. From the point of view of system resources,
transparent and non-transparent are the same. Each connection which
fetches a non-cached page requires a second connection from the proxy
(squid) to the net. So if you were running out of conntrack entries (for
example) with transparent proxying, you should also run out with manual
proxying. In the absence of any limiting rules or traffic shaping (as in
your case), the Shorewall-configured firewall does exactly the same
thing for each connection of a given type. So issues that arise when
volume is increased are extremely unlikely to be associated with the
firewall configuration.

I can't speak to any possible volume-related issues with squid because
the volume on my own site is so light.

>  
> I'll try to setup a test computer again and see if i can diagnose
> problem with transparent mode.

-Tom
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