Re: [squid-users] squid reduce Bandwidth?

On 05/02/11 22:44, Senthilkumar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Current network topology
> Internet----squid------bandwidthMonitor-----clients.
>
> The squid is configured as transparent proxy.
> squid version: 2.7stable6
>
> We are seeing an average upstream bandwidth of 5 mbps and download
> bandwidth of 25 mbps over a day on the bandwidth monitor when the
> network traffic is by-passed through squid box (ie., without transparent
> redirection). Where as when the traffic goes via squid we are only
> seeing 4 mpbs upstream and 20 mbps downstream. We have tested this over
> several days and clearly seeing this difference.
>
> Will having squid in the above topology reduce the bandwidth? The only
> reason we see is, most of the client request will be HTTP/1.1 and squid
> will only make HTTP/1.0 on the server side

Possibly, but requires special configuration for 2.7 to use HTTP/1.1.

I'm inclined to suspect non-HTTP traffic being pushed through port 80.
Squid will break those connections before any bandwidth gets consumed by
them.

Amos

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