Squid, web proxy and bandwidth control

RouterOS General
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Hello
I want to implement web cache, using a Squid in transparent mode.
I 'm using the follow example:
http://mustnofee.com/tutorials/60-the-easy-way-to-setting-mikrotik-squid-and-simple-queue
My mikrotik is a RB1000 with 64 hdd.
But according to this site:
http://www.mikrotik.com/documentation/manual_2.5/IP/Web-proxy.html#ip_proxy_transparent
"It is recommended, that at least 100MB HDD is used when running web proxy. Do not try to run web-proxy on a 32 or 48 MB FlashDisk! "
my question are
Can i configure web proxy option in my mikrotik?
How many hard disk do i need in the mikrotik?
Can I increase the HDD of my mikrotik?
In this diagram
INET----mikrotik-------client
|
Squid
can I control the bandwidth per client in the mikrotik ? the bandwith control has precedence over the web proxy redirection or I should define bandwidth control per client in Squid too?

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Searching in this site . I found out this post:
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/slow-webproxy-cache-with-compactflash/30673/1
Can i conclude that RB1000 isn’t working well with Web proxy function? or Someone has another experiencie with this feature and hardware?
What is the hardware and software recommended for work with at least 200 user and the Web proxy function?

3

Hi,

it’s not a problem with RB1000. It’s a problem with all routerboards, due to the read/write “problems”. The boards doesn’t have native IDE controller.

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  1. Run transparent MikroTik Proxy on the RouterBOARD 1000.
    Setup Parent proxy and forward all the requests from RouterBOARD 1000 to parent proxy.

  2. Run proxy on RouterBOARD 1000 CF, which is not very fast, but it is much better then run proxy on RouterBOARD NAND.

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thanks Ibersystms and sergejs
if I install RouterOS in a x86 platform could i have a better performance? or Are there some recomended platform for web proxy use?

According to this article, I can conclude that after mikrotik router redirect the traffic to parent proxy, the router apply bandwidth control over the clients, can’t I?
http://www.mikrotik.com/documentation/manual_2.5/Basic/Queue.html

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:laughing: This document is:

DRAFT

Document revision 15-May-2002


I think you can make a good web proxy with a x86.

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My suggestion is use squid >=Squid 2.7 (not 3.x) and read

http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/WindowsUpdate
http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/DynamicContent (already in squid 2.7)
http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/DynamicContent/YouTube

http://cachevideos.com/ costs money but might be cost effective (earlier versions were $10 or free).