Funny you bring that up....because we did that unintensional some time back... Basically, we have 4 T1's in a brach office, bonded as a multilink (6mb). Based on this one office bandwidth going out is on average 4.5mb used with Squid in place. One day we had to make some changes and stopped serving from the cache...we flatlined at 6mb and the office came to a scretching halt. It was at that point I said, hey I can tell you that the proxy is saving you at a min. 1.5mb of bandwidth LOL. I then went with the cacti templates and I get on average 4-5mb saved, some days up to 8mb! The other reader recommended Calamaris which has some nice reporting....installing now. -----Original Message----- From: Beavis [mailto:pfunix@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 1:00 PM To: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Bandwidth savings? nick, you can always try to do a test without squid and compare your graphs generated by cacti. (with and without squid). this is quite common and always raises management's eyebrows but .. i guess it's part of the Layer 9 (political layer) jk!. cheers, -pf On 11/2/07, Nick Duda <nduda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What is a good utility to determine how much bandwidth in bits/sec or mb > is being saved using squid. I'm using the templates for squid in Cacti > and its showing some numbers that are showing a good saving and > management is having a hard time believing it. > >
