Sure it does save bandwidth , to know more about your bandwidth saving you can run : squidclient mgr:info You will see Byte Hit Ratio which should tell you how much bandwidth you are saving. On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Senthilkumar <senthilkumaar2021@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Current network topology > Internet----squid------bandwidthMonitor-----clients. > > The squid is configured as transparent proxy. > squid version: 2.7stable6 > > We are seeing an average upstream bandwidth of 5 mbps and download bandwidth > of 25 mbps over a day on the bandwidth monitor when the network traffic is > by-passed through squid box (ie., without transparent redirection). Where as > when the traffic goes via squid we are only seeing 4 mpbs upstream and 20 > mbps downstream. We have tested this over several days and clearly seeing > this difference. > > Will having squid in the above topology reduce the bandwidth? The only > reason we see is, most of the client request will be HTTP/1.1 and squid will > only make HTTP/1.0 on the server side > Any inputs on this will be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Senthil > > > >
