Well, I'm sure someone could back-port the fast ACL lookup part of the 2.7 patch. All you have to do is find someone willing to do the work. :) adrian 2008/7/26 Stephen Gallagher <stephen.gallagher@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi, > We are moving from proxies using Basic auth to a Squid setup with NTLM and > winbind/Samba authenticating against Active Directory controllers. > > We have run into the performance problem with NTLM auth requests to the > Windows domain controllers. I think the NTLM IP caching options should help > us here, however we are stuck with using Squid 2.6.STABLE17 for the moment, > due to the SmartFilter content filtering in place which only supports > 2.6.STABLE17 as the latest Squid. > > I notice that the NTLM IP caching code has been brought into Squid 2.7, > from the Duane Wessels update here, > http://www1.ro.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.7/changesets/11923.patch > > This also includes the authenticate_ip_shortcircuit_access which we will > most likely need in order to exclude certain multi-user IPs. > > I think that we can apply the original patch by Henrik Nordstom > (http://devel.squid-cache.org/cgi-bin/diff2/ntlm_ip_cache.patch) to our 2.6 > version, however it would be useful to have the functionality of the IP > access list that's in 2.7 > > Just wondering if anyone would know what the chances are of the 2.7 patch > working in 2.6 17 without strange things happening? > > Or any other suggestions would be much appreciated! > > Thanks > Stephen > *************************** ADVERTISEMENT ****************************** > Get BT Broadband from only EUR20 per month! Always-on internet > & wireless option - find out more at http://www.btireland.ie/broadband > >
