Re: [squid-users] Can squid 2.6 STABLE 16 in accelerator mode, run on only one interface ?

On 11.10.07 08:38, Raemaekers Mark wrote:
> I am wondering if it possible to run squid on a machine having only one
> ethernet interface.
>
> This means that both the requests coming from http clients and request
> going to originserver acutally go over one and the same ethernet
> interface.

yes.

I wonder why do you ask this at all. Squid is ordinary network application,
it receives data and sends them. It does not care about physical interfaces.

> In addition , can the IP address of the originserver and the IP address of
> the interface where squid is listening on,

yes

> can be in the same subnet,

yes

> or
> do I need to create secondary IP address for the squid <--> originserver
> traffic ?

no

> I am very reluctant to go for this setup since I expect a lot of
> performance issues.

only if you have more traffic than one ethernet card can handle, or can't
set up full duplex on it...

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