Which has a better performance of the two? I was contemplating on having squid proxy on a dedicated server and disable web proxy on Mikrotik. Anybody who has used or is using who would have noticed a difference please give your views
Squid performs much, much better.
good i thought so. Incase of hotspot users. is better to have it as a parent proxy on the mikrotik or ask the users to have them manually have the browsers with the proxy server ip input.
I’d run Squid completely transparently and not use the parent proxy feature.
fewi how would you apply this to be transparent ? using the squid server as the gateway to the Mikrotik ? i have used used squid as a parent proxy but not much difference as web proxy
you should redirect all port 80 traffic to your proxy server.
but the best way is still not NAT (redirect), but route all http traffic to squid machine and then use transparent proxy (TProxy) on it =)
Chipuka/Fewi could you please explain how this could be put in place ie configs on the mikrotik
I am happy using both caches, webproxy (RAM-cache only) of RoS and squid as upstream proxy for my HotSpots.
In my MT-boxes quite some free RAM available, so why not use it this way ?
as I said - because you cannot assign public ips to your clients =)
how can i do this? please give example what to do on mikrotik and on the squid