Topic: Squid Configuration

[Jose Paez]

Hi,

I have 15 computers attached to one single telephone line to connect to internet, the adsl is not still available in this side of the city so i use e-smith as a gateway server using an AMD Duron processor based computer with 768 megabytes in ram and a hp 10k scsi ultra2 lvd 9.1 gigas harddrive, all of this with the illusion of using cache to accelerate internet browsing and maybe using two modems, etc. but when i configure the client's browsers to use the proxy at 3128 port it become very very slow.

I've read other people's topic and they said to edit the squid.conf file, i have a good manual ( Squid Configuration Manual by visolve.com) but even if it sounds stupid, i don't have a clue on how to edit this file, is there any editor (like edit in ms-dos) in the e-smith server?

any help will be really wellcome

Thanks

JP

[enigma01]

Try making it a transparnet proxy instead. seriously though it sounds at though the problem is the modem - squid can only give the files from cache if they are first in cache
(sorry if this is obvious)
And can only fetch them at the speed of the modem line

as for an editor in e-smith logon to the server as root and issue the command mc this will fire up a file manager with which you can navigate the file system easily and edit files.

Hope these ramblings are of some use

Enigma

[Trevor Vizovitis]

although e-smith has great functionality it lacks any true configuration when it comes to squid management. You need to fully create a template config for this, in order to get the real performance of squid working correctly. go to the squid site
and look at sample configs, choose a similar config and modify it to suit your needs accordingly.

[Jose Paez]

Wow, thanks for the mc command, that's what i need.

So... do you know wich parameters i have to change in the template to turn this box into a transparent cache server?, i now 56k modem it's not exactly what you need to surf but in this side of the city i don't have anything else, i bought the best modems i know (us robotics 56k external v.90) to try to make it go better, but right now when i configure the clients explorer to use the proxy, y gets half the speed it uses going direct (no proxy configured at all) so may  the tranparent modeshould be the way.

Thanks a lot Enigma

JP

[Jose Paez]

Wow, thanks for the mc command, that's what i need.

So... do you know wich parameters i have to change in the template to turn this box into a transparent cache server?, i now 56k modem it's not exactly what you need to surf but in this side of the city i don't have anything else, i bought the best modems i know (us robotics 56k external v.90) to try to make it go better, but right now when i configure the clients explorer to use the proxy, y gets half the speed it uses going direct (no proxy configured at all) so may  the tranparent modeshould be the way.

Thanks a lot Enigma

JP

[Jose Paez]

Wow, thanks for the mc command, that's what i need.

So... do you know wich parameters i have to change in the template to turn this box into a transparent cache server?, i now 56k modem it's not exactly what you need to surf but in this side of the city i don't have anything else, i bought the best modems i know (us robotics 56k external v.90) to try to make it go better, but right now when i configure the clients explorer to use the proxy, y gets half the speed it uses going direct (no proxy configured at all) so may  the tranparent modeshould be the way.

Thanks a lot Enigma

JP

[Cristian]

Sometimes the problem could be the size of the packet, change it to 1500.

[enigma01]

Sorry for not replying sooner - i have been busy uprateing my ESSG.

The rpm you need is found on the following link

http://www.e-smith.org/contrib/rpm-index/RPM-e-smith-transproxy-0.3-1.src.html

once you have it, transfer it to the ESSG and install using the following command

rpm -Uvh e-smith-transproxy-0.3-1.noarch.rpm

reboot the box - not necessary but a habit i picked up using Win9x boxes , configure your clients to use NO PROXY in the browser settings, just make sure the clients have the ESSG as their gateway and you are off and browsing transparently - if you are using DHCP all the better!

Enigma

Ooops ESSG = E-Smith Server and Gateway

Hope this helps

[Greg O]

From what I hear, transproxy was written for ESSG 4.0, and I've had transproxy working fine on 4.0. I know version numbers shouldn't be an issue, but ever since 4.1 I haven't been able to get transproxy working. It doesn't give any errors, it simply doesn't log anything, or take anything through the proxy. (I hear from a friend that runs a few different e-smith boxes that he has had intermittent success with e-smith 4.1x and transproxy, but no problems at all with 4.0.)

Also, what about on ESSG 5.0? I haven't upgraded to that just yet, but what are the chances of it (transproxy) working?

Cheers,
Greg.