Few questions about MT web proxy, please?

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Hello!

Ive implemented a web proxy and I would like to say that it is quiet a interesting task. Also, I have no experience at all on web proxy, even squid. :slight_smile: Please, be patient and let me ask you then:

  • What is required to show (by implementing transparent web proxy) the client IP address, NOT the proxy device IP address on pages like “www.myipaddress.com”?
  • Is there some benchmark available about MT web proxy? i.e. bandwidth saving, connection load, etc.
  • Why there is a limit of five thousand client connections and five thousand server connections?

We see wierd results on the connection tab of the web proxy facility, but I guess it is just a winbox bug. On ROS 3.0 ive seen on winbox connections labeled as “unknown” state, but on telnet ive seen many “idle” state. I think this is not a problem at all, just a winbox issue, right?

We are intended to improve customers speed on TCP 80 by caching web contents and also grab about 30% bandwidth save. Ive implemented it on a Dell PE1900 (Sadly MT does not support SAS controller) and some SATA drive. There are about five thousand customers then should I consider a distributed proxy implementation instead? Please advice. Comments are welcome. :slight_smile:


Thanks in advance!
Ozelo

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  • What is required to show (by implementing transparent web proxy) the client IP address, NOT the proxy device IP address on pages like "> www.myipaddress.com> "?

I believe it is not possible, since proxy is processing requests from clients.

  • Why there is a limit of five thousand client connections and five thousand server connections?

Option states for
Maximum number of concurrent proxy connections to external servers. All further connections will be put on hold until some of the existing server connections will terminate.
I believe this limit required to ensure proxy stability, setup additional external proxy if you there will be more then simultaneous 5000 server + 5000 clients connections.

I believe that 3.0 provides full support for SATA.

Thank you for the Winbox, we will check it.