Re: [squid-users] squid reduce Bandwidth?

Sure it does save bandwidth , to know more about your bandwidth saving
you can run : squidclient mgr:info
You will see Byte Hit Ratio which should tell you how much bandwidth
you are saving.

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Senthilkumar
<senthilkumaar2021_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Current network topology
> Internet----squid------bandwidthMonitor-----clients.
>
> The squid is configured as transparent proxy.
> squid version: 2.7stable6
>
> We are seeing an average upstream bandwidth of 5 mbps and download bandwidth
> of 25 mbps over a day on the bandwidth monitor when the network traffic is
> by-passed through squid box (ie., without transparent redirection). Where as
> when the traffic goes via squid we are only seeing 4 mpbs upstream and 20
> mbps downstream. We have tested this over several days and clearly seeing
> this difference.
>
> Will having squid in the above topology reduce the bandwidth? �The only
> reason we see is, most of the client request will be HTTP/1.1 and squid will
> only make HTTP/1.0 on the server side
> Any inputs on this will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Senthil
>
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Received on Sat Feb 05 2011 - 10:07:59 MST