On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:47:02PM +0100, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Payal Rathod wrote:
> 
> > A friend of mine who own a cybercafe and has squid setup as a caching
> > proxy. She is charged per Mb of download. Is it possible to know how
> > much bandwidth is saved due to squid? If yes, how do I go about it?

> The way I prefer is by doing "black box" measurements, comparing the 
> amount of traffic received by Squid to the amount of traffic sent to the 
> clients. You can get these values either by querying Squid (via SNMP) or 
> from the ethernet interface statistics in your OS if the server is dual 
> homed.

Sorry it is a simple setup. 

> Most of not all of the Squid log file statistics programs also give you
> summaries having this information.

Wowow!! any specific example you have in mind?

With warm regards,
-Payal

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