I have a last question concerning this topic :
Suppose I would tell you : "In front of my internet
server I have a WC in transparant mode and it works.
the Internet DNS points the URL to the TP-WC and the
TP-WC caches the content of the server. Since there is
only one webserver (apart from DOS attacks, and
operating system security) I do not need a Firewall to
divert traffic.
Is there any reason why I should change the
transparent WC into an accelerator mode WC and why ?
What benefit would an accelerator WC give me above the
transparent one ?
--- Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 05:31 -0700, Raemaekers Mark
> wrote:
> > What mode of WC (so transparent or accelerator)
> will
> > give me the best performance and why ? Or is there
> no
> > difference with respect to performance ?
>
> The different modes is not about performance but
> different use cases.
>
>
> accelerator or reverse proxy -> Squid sits infront
> of your own web
> server (or one you host), offloading traffic from
> the web server. The
> DNS is registered so that Internet users visiting
> your site contact the
> Squid server.
>
> transparent interception -> Squid sits in the path
> of your LAN users
> outgoing web traffic and port 80 traffic is
> transparently diverted to
> the proxy by firewall rules. This is a workaround to
> make all LAN client
> HTTP traffic go via the proxy even if they haven't
> configured the proxy
> settings correct.
>
> normal proxy -> The clients is configured to use the
> proxy, either
> manuall or via automatic means such as WPAD.
>
>
> accelerator more is Internet users -> your web
> server.
>
> transparent interception and normal mode is your
> local LAN users going
> out to random web servers out on the Internet.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
>
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