[7821] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: interface defaults again
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Tue Feb 25 17:46:11 1997
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:43:59 -0800
From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
> I attended your talk at NANOG. One question I have is - why use SQUID?
> Why not have the web server directly connected?
Originally it was because I used BGP and the Web server didn't have a strong
enough kernel for (then) 38,000 routes.
Now it's because the web server only has one Ethernet interface and on the
BSD/OS system can have 12 (three Zynx PCI cards with 4 ports each), and the
customer may get to the point where four or five providers (remember, this
is DEC PAIX) seems like a good idea.
In the future it'll be because there are more than one web server and we'll
want to stash a whole farm behind a single or small number of Squids.
