On Monday 11 August 2003 02.52, Mathew Thomas wrote: > How can I configure the squid and network-card so that one netwok > card will be used for talking to the faculty proxy servers and > another card for fetching the pages from internet? I believe, this > way things might be little faster.
One more note: Assuming you are using full-duplex connections and there is no bottlenecks in the network between you and the local servers + internet gateway then there is no noticeable benefit from having multiple NIC connections in terms of performance unless you need higher bandwidth than one NIC can provide. If there is bottlenecks in the local network such as a overloaded firewall etc then having different conenctions to different sides of the bottleneck will obviously help, but it is probably more preferable to address the bottleneck directly than to try to bypass it. So it boils down to that the main benefit of having multiple NIC connections is more in the area of redundancy than performance. A prorperly set up multi-NIC configuration may surive even if one NIC (or cable) crashes. Regards Henrik -- Donations welcome if you consider my Free Squid support helpful. https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=hno%40squid-cache.org If you need commercial Squid support or cost effective Squid or firewall appliances please refer to MARA Systems AB, Sweden http://www.marasystems.com/, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
