Re: [squid-users] NTLM IP cache in Squid 2.6

Well, I'm sure someone could back-port the fast ACL lookup part of the
2.7 patch.
All you have to do is find someone willing to do the work. :)

adrian

2008/7/26 Stephen Gallagher <stephen.gallagher_at_oceanfree.net>:
> Hi,
> We are moving from proxies using Basic auth to a Squid setup with NTLM and
> winbind/Samba authenticating against Active Directory controllers.
>
> We have run into the performance problem with NTLM auth requests to the
> Windows domain controllers. I think the NTLM IP caching options should help
> us here, however we are stuck with using Squid 2.6.STABLE17 for the moment,
> due to the SmartFilter content filtering in place which only supports
> 2.6.STABLE17 as the latest Squid.
>
> I notice that the NTLM IP caching code has been brought into Squid 2.7,
> from the Duane Wessels update here,
> http://www1.ro.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.7/changesets/11923.patch
>
> This also includes the authenticate_ip_shortcircuit_access which we will
> most likely need in order to exclude certain multi-user IPs.
>
> I think that we can apply the original patch by Henrik Nordstom
> (http://devel.squid-cache.org/cgi-bin/diff2/ntlm_ip_cache.patch) to our 2.6
> version, however it would be useful to have the functionality of the IP
> access list that's in 2.7
>
> Just wondering if anyone would know what the chances are of the 2.7 patch
> working in 2.6 17 without strange things happening?
>
> Or any other suggestions would be much appreciated!
>
> Thanks
> Stephen
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Received on Sun Jul 27 2008 - 10:08:56 MDT