From owner-freebsd-net Mon Oct 28 14: 4:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 615EF37B401 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 14:04:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from ene.asda.gr (ene.asda.gr [193.92.118.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4F8243E4A for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 14:04:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lefty@asda.gr) Received: from ene.asda.gr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ene.asda.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id g9SM4nHA068608; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 00:04:50 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from lefty@asda.gr) Received: from 193.92.118.162 (SquirrelMail authenticated user lefty) by ene.asda.gr with HTTP; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 00:04:50 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <3292.193.92.118.162.1035842690.squirrel@ene.asda.gr> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 00:04:50 +0200 (EET) Subject: Re: GRE tunnel kernel support for SQUID and Cisco (wccp v1) From: "Lefteris Tsintjelis" To: In-Reply-To: <20021028150445.GG5112@spc.org> References: <3DBD4AC4.616F652C@asda.gr> <20021028150445.GG5112@spc.org> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Cc: , X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.8) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 04:33:40PM +0200, Lefteris Tsintjelis wrote: >> It would make a nice addition to the kernel this patch found at >> http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-17.html. I included it with >> some very minor fixes to compile under 4.7-stable. > > The GRE support in the original Squid patch was an ugly hack. I wrote > and submitted a driver to Bill Fenner for GRE many, many months ago. > AFAICT, someone imported the NetBSD GRE driver into -CURRENT anyway. Still, under some tests I just run, FreeBSD with the squid hack seems to do a better job compared to linux wccp enabled boxes servicing quite a few hundred requests per minute with very similar hardware configurations and I'd rather stay with -stable. Stability and speed is a must for me and I haven't found anything else yet. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message