Re: [squid-users] my squid box isn't forwarding packets.

ipchains has nothing to do with acceleration.

How have you tested the acceleration? What happened?

Regards
Henrik Nordström
Squid Hacker
MARA Systems AB, Sweden

Mike Lee wrote:
>
> Thanks for the response Henrik, i was hoping you would pick up my
> question.. :)
>
> Well.. i couldn't get the accelerator to work with http, so i was trying
> to troubleshoot by turning on the icmp..
>
> my config looks exactly like the manual says, but i can't get it to
> work. I'm not running ipchains on my kernel 2.2 though.. would that be
> the reason??
>
> Here is config again.
>
> http_port 80
> httpd_accel_host 63.124.184.222
> httpd_accel_port 80
> httpd_accel_single_host on
> httpd_accel_with_proxy off
> httpd_accel_uses_host_header off
>
> thanks,
>
> Mike
>
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>
> > Mike Lee wrote:
> >
> > > I'm hoping someone in this list will bail me out of this problem i'm having.
> > >
> > > installed squid-2.4-stable with ./configure --enable-icmp
> > > compiled fine.
> > >
> > > What i want to accomplish is, "http accelerator mode".
> > >
> > > For a test, i sent a icmp packets to the accelerated host, and my squid box
> > > receives the icmp but never forwards them to the destination host.
> >
> > Why should it? Squid is a HTTP proxy, not a ICMP relay.
> >
> > If you send it a HTTP query this will be forwarded, provided squid.conf
> > is set up correcly.
> >
> > Regards
> > Henrik Nordström
> > Squid Hacker
> >
Received on Fri Nov 09 2001 - 13:40:06 MST