[plug] Slow proxy

[Paul Dean]

hya,
At 07:23 AM 8/06/2001 +0800, you wrote:
>I set up a proxy server with RH6.2 (it had 16 MB RAM and RH7.1 needs
>more to install).  In the setup process it didn't detect the NE2000
>card, so I added a couple of lines to conf.modules and it now works.

what version of squid are you running ( I assume it is squid you're running)
 > squid stable 2.3x  uses a different cache setup.

>However, it's running very slow as a proxy server.  I recall a few weeks
>(?) ago there was a thread about if the default route was properly set
>up, with a couple of examples of what the routing table looked like on a
>working proxy server.  Of course I can't recall the subject and can't
>see the thread (we've had a lot on ADSL lately eh).  I suspect my
>problem is something that the automatic network setup does that I
>haven't done by stuffing config files manually (yes - I have done
>resolv.conf!).

run # route to look at your route table and work out your GW dev and needed 
routes
if pulled this from a windows box, so it may look a little different on 
linux...

Active Routes:

   Network Address          Netmask  Gateway Address        Interface  Metric
           0.0.0.0          0.0.0.0       10.10.52.1     10.10.52.130       1
        10.10.52.0    255.255.252.0     10.10.52.130     10.10.52.130       1
      10.10.52.130  255.255.255.255        127.0.0.1        127.0.0.1       1
    10.255.255.255  255.255.255.255     10.10.52.130     10.10.52.130       1
         127.0.0.0        255.0.0.0        127.0.0.1        127.0.0.1       1
         224.0.0.0        224.0.0.0     10.10.52.130     10.10.52.130       1
   255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255     10.10.52.130     10.10.52.130       1

sorry about the formating, thats windows for you...



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