Shorewall users - Aug 2003 - RE: "Squid Running in the local network" --question

> > On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 21:35, stephen.dormido@sbgfc.org.ph wrote:
> > 
> > > So far everything works fine ... I just noticed recently that
> accessing
> > > the web is quite slow compared when I''m running proxy on
the
> Primary
> > > server ... Is this the down side of "Squid Running in the
local
> network" ?
> > > or maybe I have misconfigured something ...
> > 
> > Probably the latter...
> > 
> 
> Although there have been cases in the past where this type of
> application (heavy local<->local traffic being passed through a
single
> NIC on the firewall) uncovered problems in the local NIC or its driver
> that caused performance problems.
> 
> -Tom

Especially with Tulip Chip Clones .. And some older hubs/switches .. 


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