Re: [squid-users] Squid Hardware to Handle 150Mbps Peaks

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
Received on Wed Jan 18 2012 - 00:25:43 MST