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Squid Vs Web-Proxy on Mikrotik

Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:34 pm

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
 
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Re: Squid Vs Web-Proxy on Mikrotik

Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:40 pm

Squid performs much, much better.
 
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Re: Squid Vs Web-Proxy on Mikrotik

Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:46 pm

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.
 
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Re: Squid Vs Web-Proxy on Mikrotik

Mon Mar 01, 2010 10:45 pm

I'd run Squid completely transparently and not use the parent proxy feature.
 
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Re: Squid Vs Web-Proxy on Mikrotik

Mon Mar 01, 2010 10:59 pm

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
 
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Re: Squid Vs Web-Proxy on Mikrotik

Mon Mar 01, 2010 11:04 pm

you should redirect all port 80 traffic to your proxy server.
 
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Re: Squid Vs Web-Proxy on Mikrotik

Mon Mar 01, 2010 11:11 pm

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 =)
 
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Re: Squid Vs Web-Proxy on Mikrotik

Mon Mar 01, 2010 11:29 pm

Chipuka/Fewi could you please explain how this could be put in place ie configs on the mikrotik
 
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Re: Squid Vs Web-Proxy on Mikrotik

Tue Mar 02, 2010 12:35 am

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 ?
 
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Re: Squid Vs Web-Proxy on Mikrotik

Tue Mar 02, 2010 1:17 am

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 =)
 
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Re: Squid Vs Web-Proxy on Mikrotik

Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:17 pm

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 =)
how can i do this? please give example what to do on mikrotik and on the squid
 
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