Hi,

I am currently using both a x86 and a Rb1100 and am experiencing extreme difficulties adding an external transparent squid to my network as the rough network diagram would show; i was now advised by 2 different colleagues of mine to purchase a new routerboard that it would solve my problem.

Now i am convinced that i might have to get a new routerboard and the thing here is that i would not like to make a mistake in my choice. i am in control of a small WISP and we need to include this squid ASAP as bandwidth costs here in Africa are ridiculously high!

I would like to know if the rb2001 can take my current traffic as i have up to 150 clients who also have large networks within their offices. Our network is still growing and we hope to get larger. Is it possible to upgrade the memory of the Rb2001? if yes please what is the maximum possible?

The Rb1200 is it capable of carrying the above mentioned traffic? also can we upgrade the Ram like i did in the Rb1100? if yes please what is the maximum possible?

I would appreciate it if you have a look at the diagram and tell me honestly if its possible and if you have successfully done it before send me your CLI commands used.

Thanks

1200 is a really bad product. I have about 20, and there are to many general failure to the 1200. I have changed all to 1100(XX) and CCR. The biggest issue so far, is that one or more ports suddenly just give you 2,5 Mbps of bandwith.

Doesn't ClearOS have a full fledged version of squid built in ? I'm pretty sure I remember using it a previous site of mine.It would give you a lot more available cache and options that mtk version of an http proxy.

Doesn't ClearOS have a full fledged version of squid built in ? I'm pretty sure I remember using it a previous site of mine.It would give you a lot more available cache and options that mtk version of an http proxy.

Yes it does! but including a squid at the end just before the cloud improves the speed up to 20 times!
I know this because i was able to achieve it on a non-transparent version which requires users entering proxies on their end!

If you want to go RB I would go with a RB1100 (preferably the Dual Core one).I would in all honesty rather have an X86 machine like a Centos/squid or a ClearOS machine and dedicate a lot of memory to it so you can save a lot of pages into memory and use the large disks the machines comes for as secondary cache.Believe me I know what you mean about the price of bandwidth , as we're paying over R60k for a 20Mb p2p link :-----

If you want to go RB I would go with a RB1100 (preferably the Dual Core one).I would in all honesty rather have an X86 machine like a Centos/squid or a ClearOS machine and dedicate a lot of memory to it so you can save a lot of pages into memory and use the large disks the machines comes for as secondary cache.Believe me I know what you mean about the price of bandwidth , as we're paying over R60k for a 20Mb p2p link :-----

Hi,

Thanks for your response, i already have a squid machine; a HP running on SUSE 12.3 on about 4Mb worth of ram! we plan on upgrading the ram once we can integrate it into the network successfully!

Now i have been having issues instructing my mikrotik thats either the Rb1100 or the x86 to push traffic to the squid! once i input the CLI commands the network goes blind! I now ping www.google.com on the terminal and i get good response but the outgoing network interface refuses to pass or push any traffic!

I am thinking of trying out Mikrotik version 4.17 as i cant use any version higher than 5.22 as the web-proxy wont work on the higher versions!

Please advise.