On Jan 17, 2012, at 1:02 PM, nachot wrote: > We currently have a commercial proxy solution in place but since we increased > our bandwidth to 150meg connection, the proxy is slowing things down > considerably as it's spec'd for 10meg connections. The commercial vendor > proposes a new appliance that is 5 times what we can afford to spend. We're > considering Squid as an option, but it needs to be able to support 50meg > sustained throughput with spikes to 150meg. > > We have about 200 users and only need the proxy to support ICAP integration > with our DLP solution. The Squid proxy should provide visibility into our > SSL connections for the DLP solution to scan and also provide blocking of > web/FTP connections containing sensitive data. Caching and web filtering > are secondary needs. > > I expect Squid would be able to support our needs, but also expect that it > won't run on light hardware (which is the reason behind our current need in > the first place). Are there recommended hardware specs for such a > configuration? > > Any suggestions are appreciated. I have 2 squids running on 2.8ghz quad core xeons, serving 32 networks and 9,000 users. internet connection is 100mb ethernet handoff. squid is great money saver. -j
