[olug] Squid setup

[Daniel G. Linder]

I don't know much about optimizing Squid, but one thing that might help would be to leverage the other High School proxy/cache servers using the "cache_peer" options.  If the LAN/WAN between the schools is faster than their connection to the Internet, then you could setup the Squid proxy's to peer with each other (and hopefully increase the hit rate), then fall back to the Internet if needed.  More than likely, someplace that is viewed in one school will have a good chance of being viewed in another school.  Furthermore, if your ISP has a proxy setup on their end of the connection, you *could* have your proxys go to it as another peer -- the only problem with this is that you're probably going to start to see some latency issues as each cache has to "miss" it's local database (i.e. check the local proxy, check the neighboring HS proxy, check the ISP proxy, get it from the Internet).

Don't quote me on all this since it has been a LONG time since I setup Squid, and even then it was for just myself on my home cablemodem.

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-admin at olug.org [mailto:olug-admin at olug.org]On Behalf Of Craig
Wolf
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 1:53 PM
To: olug at olug.org
Subject: [olug] Squid setup


I have a working, and I use that term loosely, Squid cacheing server but
I need a little help from those that have a know with Squid.  Attached
is my Squid.conf file.    Would anyone be kind enough to give me any
pointers as to what else to change to make things better?  This is a
test we are running in the 3 high schools at Millard to see what
OS/Software to run a cacheing server on and you KNOW that I am
championing the cause.  Anyhow, any hints or suggestions would be
GREATLY appreciated!!  TIA!


Craig Wolf
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