Re: squid as relay, or plug-gw

Thanks Michael.

I'm taking a look at tcpserver. Now my big question is... can it function
as a relay and if so how do I redirect the connections on the relay?

I took a look at the man pages and didn't see anything obvious about
relaying connections.

Thanks
Ricardo

On Sun, 31 May 1998, Michael Samuel wrote:

> On Sat, 30 May 1998, Ricardo Kleemann wrote:
>
> > It's true that all I want is a relay for the CGI, but as you mentioned
> > in another email, plug-gw runs off of inetd and would not be good for
> > high traffic.
>
> Umm... It would be a helluva lot faster than squid, if all you are
> accessing is CGI scipts.
>
> Try looking at
> ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/pub/software/ucspi-tcp-0.80.tar.gz if inetd is
> too slow for you.
>
> > Then for high traffic, wouldn't squid function perfectly for what I need?
>
> Yes, but with 10 times the CPU power, 100 times the RAM, and 1000 times
> the hard disk space.
>
> Squid is better used if you have lots of people accessing the entire web,
> as it caches most objects (cgi programs being on of the few that Squid
> doesn't cache) and saves you bandwidth, and speed.
>
>
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Received on Sat May 30 1998 - 22:31:04 MDT