> it's my belief that the WRT just doesn't have enough memory to make the > dual-proxy setup workable under real-world use. I think it's more feasible > to just have the OWRT box work as a transparent proxy that sends traffic to > a beefier squid box upstream.
This is the critical point to make. Proxying is heavy by nature, and making it small enough to be as responsive as web users want it to be means we have to either strip out functionality or do something ridiculous like writing one in ASM. We are talking about proxying on a platform where the high-average amount of physical memory (32MB) hold no more than a handful of webpages (~50 at an average of 375KB, presuming 20MB dedicated). That puts caching pretty much out of the question; filtering even more so, since it's even more resource-intensive. Let your routers be routers, proxies be proxies, and may someone stop putting so much effort into maintaining X on the OpenWRT platform. _______________________________________________ openwrt-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users
