Ip forwarding or Squid server?

kopikat · 01-05-2005, 07:49 AM

I running a home LAN, one linux PC and a Win PC, the first one acts as gateway using ip forwarding. It runs pretty fast, at least much more faster than when I had a win gateway. Should I stick with this or is squid a better option for me?? Which one has a better performance??

kopikat · 01-05-2005, 12:56 PM

Up!
Up!

Any ideas, anyone??

starbuck8968 · 01-20-2005, 04:00 PM

Regular IP forwarding is probably as fast as you can get. If you want to use the other functions that squid provides, then use squid.

masand · 01-20-2005, 04:14 PM

i have used both

what i feel is that Squid is good for large organizations
where u have some good bandwidth
it has some overheads with it also, like checking the cache etc
i used to get more misses than hits
so i dropped squid and shifted to ip forwarding

regards