Re: [squid-users] http access is very slow with proxy

On Wednesday 05 November 2003 5:09 pm, Eicke wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I installed squid2 in my freebsd server. I am using ipfw to redirect
> packages from my clients to squid port into my server.
> I am testing with only client and the http access is very slow with proxy.
> If I try to access a website with client no proxy configurated the access
> is 10 times fast than a proxy client access.

Try configuring your browser to use the proxy (ie: don't redirect packets
using ipfw - tell the browser to use the proxy itself) and compare the speed
of this with direct browsing (no proxy involved at all), and redirecting
packets to the proxy as you describe.

This will tell you whether the speed problem is caused by Squid (browsing
will be fast with no proxy at all, and will be slow in both the other two
setups), or whether the problem is the way you are redirecting packets
(browsing will be fast with no proxy, or with the proxy configured in the
browser, but slow when redirecting packets using ipfw).

Regards,

Antony.

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