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10.12 Exercises

  • Toggle your prefer_direct and/or nonhierarchical_direct settings and look for any changes in the access.log.

  • Enable netdb and view the netdb cache manager page after Squid has been running for a while.

  • If using ICP or HTCP, count the percentage of requests that experienced a timeout waiting for replies to arrive.

  • If you used enable-cache-digests and have a reasonably full cache, disable the digest_generation directive and note any change in memory usage.

  • Use your operating system's packet filters to block ICP or HTCP messages to your neighbors. How quickly does Squid change their state from alive to dead, and back again?



    		Preface
    		Chapter 1. Introduction
    		Chapter 2. Getting Squid
    		Chapter 3. Compiling and Installing
    		Chapter 4. Configuration Guide for the Eager
    		Chapter 5. Running Squid
    		Chapter 6. All About Access Controls
    		Chapter 7. Disk Cache Basics
    		Chapter 8. Advanced Disk Cache Topics
    		Chapter 9. Interception Caching
    		Chapter 10. Talking to Other Squids
    		10.1 Some Terminology
    		10.2 Why (Not) Use a Hierarchy?
    		10.3 Telling Squid About Your Neighbors
    		10.4 Restricting Requests to Neighbors
    		10.5 The Network Measurement Database
    		10.6 Internet Cache Protocol
    		10.7 Cache Digests
    		10.8 Hypertext Caching Protocol
    		10.9 Cache Array Routing Protocol
    		10.10 Putting It All Together
    		10.11 How Do I ...
    		10.12 Exercises
    		Chapter 11. Redirectors
    		Chapter 12. Authentication Helpers
    		Chapter 13. Log Files
    		Chapter 14. Monitoring Squid
    		Chapter 15. Server Accelerator Mode
    		Chapter 16. Debugging and Troubleshooting
    		Appendix A. Config File Reference
    		Appendix B. The Memory Cache
    		Appendix C. Delay Pools
    		Appendix D. Filesystem Performance Benchmarks
    		Appendix E. Squid on Windows
    		Appendix F. Configuring Squid Clients