Hi all, We are looking to replace our proxy infrastructure with squid, but I am concerned about the performance of squid using the ntlm_auth samba handler (specifically using negotiate). We are almost ready to do some Loadrunner stress tests, but I wanted to see if anyone had some base statistics out there? I saw that squid uses authenticate_ip_shortcircuit_ttl in 2.7. Has anyone used the IP caching feature, and are there plans to port it to the 3.x branch? (we are really after the ICAP functionallity) I am currently investigating a way to push our AD user/group listings into a flat file tree once a night, so squidGuard can do AD group lookups locally. That should save authorization cycles, but the samba authentication is what really worries me... I really wish kerberos was prevelent enought that we could just force kerberos/Basic, but that's the way it goes... I don't even know how we could load test kerberos authentication... Current deployment: ------------------------------------------------------ squid: 3.0.11 squidGuard: 1.4 samba: 3.2.7 server: RHAS 5.2 64bit (Sunfire 4100 8gigs of ram) Current configs (squid is not yet optimized) -------------------------------------------------------------------- http_port xx.xx.x.xxx:8080 tcp_outgoing_address xx.xx.x.xxx ##################################################################### # AUTHENTICATION ##################################################################### auth_param negotiate program /dev/pkgs/linux/intel/squid/3.0.11/libexec/squid_kerb_auth -d auth_param negotiate children 10 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on auth_param ntlm program /dev/pkgs/linux/intel/samba/3.2.7/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=squid-2.5-ntlmssp auth_param ntlm children 10 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on auth_param basic program /dev/pkgs/linux/intel/samba/3.2.7/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=squid-2.5-basic auth_param basic children 10 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server auth_param basic credentialsttl 6 hours auth_param basic casesensitive off ##################################################################### # ACL'S ##################################################################### acl manager proto cache_object acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 acl CONNECT method CONNECT acl java browser Java/1.3 Java/1.4 acl ntlm_users proxy_auth REQUIRED http_access allow manager localhost http_access deny manager http_access allow java http_access allow ntlm_users http_access deny all ##################################################################### # DNS Settings ##################################################################### dns_defnames on dns_nameservers xx.xx.xx.xxx xx.xx.xx.xxx ##################################################################### # ##################################################################### hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ? access_log /etrade/pkgs/linux/intel/squid/3.0.11/var/logs/access.log squid refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080 refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440 refresh_pattern (cgi-bin|\?) 0 0% 0 refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320 icp_port 3130 coredump_dir /etrade/pkgs/linux/intel/squid/3.0.11/var/cache ##################################################################### # Squid Guard ##################################################################### redirect_program /dev/pkgs/linux/intel/squidGuard/1.4/bin/squidGuard redirect_children 10 ##################################################################### # Kaspersky AV ##################################################################### icap_enable on icap_send_client_ip on icap_service is_kav_req reqmod_precache 0 icap://localhost:1344/av/reqmod icap_service is_kav_resp respmod_precache 0 icap://localhost:1344/av/respmod acl acl_kav_GET method GET icap_class ic_kav_req is_kav_req icap_class ic_kav_resp is_kav_resp icap_access ic_kav_resp allow all icap_access ic_kav_req allow all !acl_kav_GET SAMBA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # global parameters [global] # ADS membership settings workgroup = DEV netbios name = PROXYDEV1 realm = DEV.COM server string = proxydev1.dev.com security = ADS winbind trusted domains only = yes #winbind cache time = 600 # tested samba auth caching, doesn't work for ntlm_auth #winbind offline logon = true # allow trusted domains = no use kerberos keytab = true # IdMap settings winbind use default domain = yes idmap domains = DEV idmap config DEV:backend = nss idmap config DEV:readonly = yes idmap config DEV:default = no # security settings encrypt passwords = yes lm announce = no client lanman auth = no client ntlmv2 auth = yes client plaintext auth = no client schannel = yes server schannel = yes server signing = Auto encrypt passwords = yes lanman auth = no ntlm auth = no min protocol = NT1 max protocol = NT1 show add printer wizard = no load printers = no Thanks all!