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How many connections can squid handle?
The limit on number of connections any Squid can have attached is only limited by your configured FD limits and available server RAM. Squid uses ~64 KB per network socket for traffic state – which equates to around 2 GB of RAM just for I/O buffers at 20,000 concurrent client connections.
What is concurrent connection limit?
2. “Concurrent connection” means the maximum number of TCP connections your server can handle at any one time. At any given time many TCP/IP requests are coming to your server. For instance a single, simple web page might require 10 connections. 1 for the HTML page.
How many connections can Windows 10 have?
20
As part of the Windows EULA (on versions 7, 8, 8.1 & 10 as of publishing this KB article) the maximum device connection limit is 20 concurrent TCP/IP connections.
How to limit the number of squid connections?
You need to use squid ACCESS CONTROLS feature called maxconn. It puts a limit on the maximum number of connections from a single client IP address. It is an ACL that will be true if the user has more than maxconn connections open.
Is it possible to intercept a HTTPS connection to squid?
It is possible to intercept an HTTPS connection to an origin server at Squid’s https_port. This may be useful in surrogate (aka, http accelerator, reverse proxy) environments, but limited to situations where Squid can represent the origin server using that origin server SSL certificate.
Can a Squid proxy decrypt HTTPS connect tunnels?
Squid SslBump and associated features can be used to decrypt HTTPS CONNECT tunnels while they pass through a Squid proxy. This allows dealing with tunnelled HTTP messages as if they were regular HTTP messages, including applying detailed access controls and performing content adaptation (e.g.,…
How to limit the number of simultaneous connections?
You need to use squid ACCESS CONTROLS feature called maxconn. It puts a limit on the maximum number of connections from a single client IP address. It is an ACL that will be true if the user has more than maxconn connections open. It is used in http_access to allow/deny the request just like all the other acl types.