Re: [squid-users] my squid box isn't forwarding packets.

ipchains has nothing to do with acceleration.

How have you tested the acceleration? What happened?

Regards
Henrik Nordstr�m
Squid Hacker
MARA Systems AB, Sweden

Mike Lee wrote:
>
> Thanks for the response Henrik, i was hoping you would pick up my
> question.. :)
>
> Well.. i couldn't get the accelerator to work with http, so i was trying
> to troubleshoot by turning on the icmp..
>
> my config looks exactly like the manual says, but i can't get it to
> work. I'm not running ipchains on my kernel 2.2 though.. would that be
> the reason??
>
> Here is config again.
>
> http_port 80
> httpd_accel_host 63.124.184.222
> httpd_accel_port 80
> httpd_accel_single_host on
> httpd_accel_with_proxy off
> httpd_accel_uses_host_header off
>
> thanks,
>
> Mike
>
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>
> > Mike Lee wrote:
> >
> > > I'm hoping someone in this list will bail me out of this problem i'm having.
> > >
> > > installed squid-2.4-stable with ./configure --enable-icmp
> > > compiled fine.
> > >
> > > What i want to accomplish is, "http accelerator mode".
> > >
> > > For a test, i sent a icmp packets to the accelerated host, and my squid box
> > > receives the icmp but never forwards them to the destination host.
> >
> > Why should it? Squid is a HTTP proxy, not a ICMP relay.
> >
> > If you send it a HTTP query this will be forwarded, provided squid.conf
> > is set up correcly.
> >
> > Regards
> > Henrik Nordstr�m
> > Squid Hacker
> >
Received on Fri Nov 09 2001 - 13:40:06 MST