Re: New Squid/comments

On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Tuomo Pyhala wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Brian wrote:
>
> > 2. Is there a simple way to "force" the squid on users? Maybe by some how
> > redirecting outgoing port 80 requests at the Cisco, back to squid? I am
> > just interested in seeing how the squid does with *all* of our users using
> > it. Since I just turned it on, its going to be quite a while before I get
> > thousands of users to go in and configure there browsers to point to our
> > auto-config file.
>
> We are using Squid, and we denied all outgoing http-connections except
> from host running the Squid. Quite effective making users to use
> squid :) Of course, this might cause you some extra phone calls from
> lusers asking why their browser stopped working :)
>

But you *can* redirect at the Cisco, all port requests back to the squid.
This is what I am trying to do, but it doesnt seem to be working. Yes its
going to give your router a workout, especially a 2500 series, but the
extra latency might be made up by having your cache majorly optimized by
the increased usage.

Brian

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Received on Fri Feb 06 1998 - 12:08:07 MST