Last time I checked it seemed like 50 percent of our traffic was http on my main router. I have Mikrotik redirect/DST-NAT port 80 traffic to a Squid. I typically see 20-30 percent byte hit or bandwidth savings on that traffic. It seems to speed up some slow websites as well. On another site with a 6mbps link(we are in process of updating) at peak times we can see uplink maxed at 6mbps but out interface occasionally jumps and hangs at over 7mbps. CPU load on the Squid box is usually 1-3 percent. It has a single SATA drive.
I really wish Mikrotik supported WCCP like Cisco did though. I have not tried the proxy built into Mikrotik for some time but I figure the router has enough to do and it would be better on a seperate box especially with a large number of clients.
Matt
Squid Object Cache: Version 2.6.STABLE17
Connection information for squid:
Number of clients accessing cache: 600
Number of HTTP requests received: 89107264
Number of ICP messages received: 0
Number of ICP messages sent: 0
Number of queued ICP replies: 0
Request failure ratio: 0.00
Average HTTP requests per minute since start: 1735.3
Average ICP messages per minute since start: 0.0
Select loop called: 1155379705 times, 2.667 ms avg
Cache information for squid:
Request Hit Ratios: 5min: 43.1%, 60min: 43.4%
Byte Hit Ratios: 5min: 25.0%, 60min: 15.8%
Request Memory Hit Ratios: 5min: 0.7%, 60min: 1.0%
Request Disk Hit Ratios: 5min: 37.0%, 60min: 36.3%
Storage Swap size: 88501112 KB
Storage Mem size: 7876 KB
Mean Object Size: 21.79 KB
Requests given to unlinkd: 0
Median Service Times (seconds) 5 min 60 min:
HTTP Requests (All): 0.05633 0.05633
Cache Misses: 0.19742 0.15888
Cache Hits: 0.01235 0.01035
Near Hits: 0.16775 0.10281
Not-Modified Replies: 0.00091 0.00179
DNS Lookups: 0.02336 0.02683
ICP Queries: 0.00000 0.00000
I think esn.toolz was asking for a reduced price version Normis. You stated that the L6 license and cpu were a major part of the cost. Many people don’t need your level 6 license but only need the features of the L4.
Have you thought about releasing a cost reduced lite version with L4? You are competing with x86 based routers and the RB1000 seems high to many people.
Sorry, I misunderstood the question. Right now I don’t have any information about RB1000 with L4 license. But as RB1000 is without wireless part, There are not many uses for this device that work with L4. If you need less than 200 PPPoE users, or less than 20 User Manager sessions - you can buy a cheaper RouterBOARD.
I have a rb1000 with a CF 4 gb, for a small proxy, but I need to mark the layer 7 and make more power routing, believe that it is necessary to increase the RAM memory from 512 to 1024?
thanks
but why do you need L7 marking for routing? that will be too much unnecessary resource wasting. you can use regular mangle to mark by protocol/port/source/destination and use those marks for policy routing. please avoid l7 as much as possible, it’s a real resource killer
ISP Juan Pujol