Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 00:04:50 +0200 (EET) From: "Lefteris Tsintjelis" <lefty@asda.gr> To: <bms@spc.org> Cc: <lefty@asda.gr>, <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: GRE tunnel kernel support for SQUID and Cisco (wccp v1) Message-ID: <3292.193.92.118.162.1035842690.squirrel@ene.asda.gr> In-Reply-To: <20021028150445.GG5112@spc.org> References: <3DBD4AC4.616F652C@asda.gr> <20021028150445.GG5112@spc.org>
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> 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
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