Thanks Ryan Any idea to filter some abnormal traffic/attrack from clients ? Now, I am testing it with a layer4 switch. In most situation, it works fine. However, I suspect some unknown port 80 traffic make it unstable. Any idea? Thanks
--- On Fri, 7/11/08, Rhino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Rhino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [squid-users] squid in ISP > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org > Date: Friday, July 11, 2008, 1:56 PM > Siu-kin Lam wrote: > > Dear all > > > > Any experience using squid as caching in ISP > environment ? > > > > > > thanks > > SK > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm sure there's much larger ISPs out there and > been using it much longer; > just passing along our info. > We're a small ISP serving around 10k dialup,dsl,cable > modem and MAN subs > via a dual-homed to different ISP BGP WAN. > We loaded squid on a quad core linux box with around 1.2Tb > disk > capacity and 32Gb RAM, using a Cisco 4948 switch and WCCP2 > to transparently redirect to Squid. > There were some major hurdles along the way > mostly getting the 4948 to pass the L2 WCCP traffic - > 2 IOS bugs and a year in the process) but once that worked > and we got our IPTABLES set up properly, transparent > redirection > has been working quite well. > Some tweaks needed to our Squid config, but with the help > of this list > - particularly Henrik and Amos' posts - at this point > we're very > encouraged by the performance and bandwidth savings > we're seeing on the > system which has only been truly active for around 3 weeks > now. > Again, we're a pretty small shop - so when our old > NetApp Netcache > was no longer able to adequately handle the load, we needed > an > effective, minimal-cost solution which this is > demonstrating to be. > Hope that helps. > -Ryan