Hi! On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Andrei <funactivities@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ooo... the line between Squid and the clients is 1000 MB. My internet > connection is 12MB. Not sure if that changes things. Does it? Would it > make a difference in that situation if clients (from 1000Mb) come on > one line, eth0 and get cached on eth1 which is only 12MB. I assume that MB=Mega Bits (and *not* Megabytes). If that's the case: is the squid NIC 1Gbps? if so: these are usually full-duplex (and = to clients connection speed), so: no, you will not have a real benefit from adding another NIC, but, if you insist, you could do it without changing most of your configuration, by adding two NICs together with bonding (and a port-channel on your switch, if it support it). > > Sorry if I wasn't clear before > > > > > On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Leonardo Rodrigues wrote: >>> >>> Em 28/08/2010 12:29, Andrei escreveu: >>>> >>>> I'm setting up a transparent Squid box for 300 users. All requests >>>> from the router are sent to the Squid box. Squid box has one NIC, >>>> eth0. This box receives requests (from clients) and catches content >>>> from the web using this one NIC on its one WAN port, eth0. >>>> >>>> Question: would it improve performance of the Squid box if I was >>>> receiving requests (from the clients) on eth0 and caching content on >>>> eth1? In other words, is there a benefit of using two NIC's vs. one? >>>> This is a public IP/WAN Squid box. Both eth0 and eth1 would have a WAN >>>> (public IP) address. >>>> >>>> >>>> I'm on a 12Mb line. >>>> >>> >>> >>> Your limitation is your 12Mb line .... any decent hardware can handle >>> that with no problem at all. ANY 100Mbit NIC, even onboard and >>> cheapers/generics one, can handle 12Mbit with no problem at all. >>> >>> i really dont think adding another NIC will improve your performance, >>> given your 12Mbit WAN limitation. >>> >>> >> >> Indeed. >> >> Andrei escreveu: >> Whether anything can be done by Squid depends on whether the clients using >> Squid are on the outside of that 12Mb line or on some faster connection >> between them and Squid. >> >> For a faster internal connection and slower Internet connection you can >> look towards raising the Hit Ratio' probably the byte hits specifically. >> That will drop the load on the Internet line and make the whole network >> appear faster to users. The holy grail for forward proxies seems to be 50%, >> with reality coming in between 20% and 45% depending on your clients and >> storage space. >> >> Amos >> -- >> Please be using >> Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE9 or 3.1.7 >> Beta testers wanted for 3.2.0.1 >> >
