Re: simulating HTTP latency by chaining squids

Yup - just use cache_peer and specify 'parent'. read the Squid FAQ
for information on the things you need to tweak.

On Wed, Feb 16, 2005, Nick Lewycky wrote:
> I was wondering if it is possible to tell my squid proxy to use another
> proxy for its own connections. I haven't been able to find any simple
> setting or anything in the documentation on how to achieve this. Perhaps
> there's some way to abuse cache peering into achieving this?
>
> A real-world situation for this would be if I were given a proxy to use
> by my ISP and I want to run my own Squid on my small network. (The ISPs
> proxy is, let's say, a long satellite hop away.)
>
> In reality, I'm trying to test the performance in my squid3 branch under
> different situations and I need a way to simulate additional network
> latency. This is the most promising solution I know of at the moment,
> but if anyone has a different solution (such as Linux netfilter tricks?)
> I can use, that would work just as well.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick Lewycky

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