Squid Version 2.7.STABLE5 SUSE Enterprise 11 i586 browsing is slow if use squid as a proxy server. on a MS Win 2003 SP2 x864, we installed a small proxy software(cc proxy), and then did the browsing, the result was good/excellent. please help/suggest details: -------- two nics, one connected with DSL modem(eth1), and one connected with our local lan(eth0) runlevel script for routing and firewalling: -------------------------------------------- # cat /etc/init.d/routing #!/bin/bash # /etc/init.d/routing ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: routing # Required-Start: $network # Required-Stop: # Default-Start: 3 5 # Default-Stop: # Description: set up routing and Firewalling ### END INIT INFO # squid server IP SQUID_SERVER=192.168.0.1 # Interface connected to Internet INTERNET=eth1 # Interface connected to LAN LAN_IN=eth0 # Squid port SQUID_PORT=8080 # Load IPTABLES modules for NAT and IP conntrack support modprobe ip_conntrack modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp # For win xp ftp client modprobe ip_nat_ftp . /etc/rc.status # First reset status of this service rc_reset case "$1" in stop) echo -n "Stoping Firewall" # disaable routing echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward # DO NOT MODIFY BELOW # Clean old firewall iptables -F iptables -X iptables -t nat -F iptables -t nat -X # Remember status and be verbose rc_status -v ;; start) echo -n "Starting Firewall and router" # enable routing echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward # Setting default filter policy iptables -P INPUT DROP iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT # Unlimited access to loop back iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT # To block Msn Messenger iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 1863 -j DROP iptables -A FORWARD -o "$INTERNET" -i "$LAN_IN" -d 0/0 -p tcp --dport 1863 -j DROP iptables -A FORWARD -o "$INTERNET" -i "$LAN_IN" -d 0/0 -p udp --dport 1863 -j DROP # Allow unlimited access to $INTERNET from our local lan iptables -A INPUT -i $INTERNET -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT # set this system as a router for Rest of LAN iptables --table nat --append POSTROUTING --out-interface $INTERNET -j MASQUERADE iptables --append FORWARD --in-interface $LAN_IN -j ACCEPT # unlimited access to LAN iptables -A INPUT -i $LAN_IN -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -o $LAN_IN -j ACCEPT ### for Win2k3 SP1 virtual machine iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.1.3 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT ### # DNAT port 80 request comming from LAN systems to squid 3128 ($SQUID_PORT) aka transparent proxy iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i $LAN_IN -p tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to $SQUID_SERVER:$SQUID_PORT # if it is same system iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i $INTERNET -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port $SQUID_PORT # DROP everything and Log it iptables -A INPUT -j LOG iptables -A INPUT -j DROP # Remember status and be verbose rc_status -v ;; restart) ## Stop the service and regardless of whether it was ## running or not, start it again. $0 stop $0 start # Remember status and be quiet rc_status ;; esac rc_exit Name Resolution: ------------------ # cat /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 127.0.0.1 # grep "forward*" /etc/named.conf forward first; forwarders { 202.163.96.3; 202.163.96.4; }; squid.conf ---------- # grep -v ^# /etc/squid/squid.conf acl all src all acl manager proto cache_object acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network acl SSL_ports port 443 acl Safe_ports port 80 # http acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp acl Safe_ports port 443 # https acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http acl CONNECT method CONNECT acl CON_SKYPE method CONNECT acl skype url_regex ^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9] http_access allow CON_SKYPE skype http_access allow manager localhost http_access deny manager http_access deny !Safe_ports ##### ***** acl ftp_software dstdomain .sight-board.de http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports !ftp_software ##### ***** http_access allow localnet http_access allow localhost acl porn_web url_regex -i "/etc/squid/blacklists/porn/domains.txt" http_access deny porn_web acl hod_ip src "/etc/squid/ipes/hod_ip.txt" http_access allow hod_ip acl allowed_for_all url_regex -i "/etc/squid/allowed_for_all.txt" http_access allow allowed_for_all acl cad_ip src "/etc/squid/ipes/cad_ip.txt" http_access deny cad_ip acl allowed_for_env url_regex -i "/etc/squid/allowed_for_env.txt" http_access allow allowed_for_env acl env_ip src "/etc/squid/ipes/environment_ip.txt" http_access deny env_ip acl ftp_site url_regex -i ftp://ftp.sight-board.de http_access allow ftp_site acl serial_key url_regex -i www.phazeddl.com http_access deny serial_key acl ent_websites url_regex -i "/etc/squid/entwebsites.txt" http_access deny ent_websites acl proxyservers url_regex -i "/etc/squid/proxyservers.txt" http_access deny proxyservers acl web_msgrs url_regex -i "/etc/squid/webmessengers.txt" http_access deny web_msgrs acl blocked_extns url_regex -i "/etc/squid/blocked_extns.txt" http_access deny blocked_extns acl hod_tl_ip src "/etc/squid/ipes/hod_and_tl_ip.txt" http_access allow hod_tl_ip http_access deny all icp_access allow localnet icp_access deny all http_port 8080 transparent hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ? cache_mem 1000 MB maximum_object_size_in_memory 120 KB cache_dir diskd /var/cache/squid 50000 16 256 store_dir_select_algorithm round-robin maximum_object_size 60 MB access_log /var/log/squid/access.log squid cache_store_log none emulate_httpd_log on refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080 refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440 refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0 refresh_pattern -i \.gif$ 43200 100% 43200 override-lastmod override-expire refresh_pattern -i \.png$ 43200 100% 43200 override-lastmod override-expire refresh_pattern -i \.jpg$ 43200 100% 43200 override-lastmod override-expire refresh_pattern -i \.jpeg$ 43200 100% 43200 override-lastmod override-expire refresh_pattern -i \.pdf$ 43200 100% 43200 override-lastmod override-expire refresh_pattern -i \.zip$ 43200 100% 43200 override-lastmod override-expire refresh_pattern -i \.tar$ 43200 100% 43200 override-lastmod override-expire refresh_pattern -i \.gz$ 43200 100% 43200 override-lastmod override-expire refresh_pattern -i \.tgz$ 43200 100% 43200 override-lastmod override-expire refresh_pattern -i \.exe$ 43200 100% 43200 override-lastmod override-expire refresh_pattern -i \.prz$ 43200 100% 43200 override-lastmod override-expire refresh_pattern -i \.ppt$ 43200 100% 43200 override-lastmod override-expire refresh_pattern -i \.inf$ 43200 100% 43200 override-lastmod override-expire refresh_pattern -i \.swf$ 43200 100% 43200 override-lastmod override-expire refresh_pattern -i \.mid$ 43200 100% 43200 override-lastmod override-expire refresh_pattern -i \.wav$ 43200 100% 43200 override-lastmod override-expire refresh_pattern -i \.mp3$ 43200 100% 43200 override-lastmod override-expire refresh_pattern -i \.index.(html|htm)$ 0 40% 10080 refresh_pattern -i \.(html|htm|css|js)$ 1440 40% 40320 refresh_pattern . 0 40% 40320 acl shoutcast rep_header X-HTTP09-First-Line ^ICY\s[0-9] upgrade_http0.9 deny shoutcast acl apache rep_header Server ^Apache broken_vary_encoding allow apache half_closed_clients off ipcache_size 2048 fqdncache_size 2048 coredump_dir /var/cache/squid