on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 03:09:32AM -0500, will trillich (will@serensoft.com) wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 03:04:49AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > on Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 11:46:59AM +0200, Arno Baier (arno.baier.linux@aon.at) wrote:
> > > hi folks,
> > > i have 3 woddy boxes and until now i made for each a upgrade by downloading
> > > each file three times. now i want to set up x and kde, these are to many
> > > files to
> > > download them three times.
> > > is ther any solution to download the files and store them
> > > and upgrade the other boxes with these files?
> > >
> > > i will not set up an mirror, to low internet connection - to many files !
> >
> > You can accomplish much the same effect as mirroring, more efficiently,
> > by setting up a transparent squid proxy. Your webrowsing will also
> > benefit.
>
> any chance we can get that translated into english?
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orarsvg.
...oh, hell.
> (and is there a /translucent/ or /opaque/ squid proxy?)
> what's transparent, and how does a debster set it up?
Squid is a caching web proxy. It replaces the cache of your browser
with one that's:
- Centralized. Multiple browsers, users, and/or hosts can hit the
same cache.
- Specialized. Squid is a cache. It's not a browser / mailer /
newsreader / HTML editor / toaster. It's a cache. It specializes
in being fast and configurable to your needs.
- Bigger. Throw as much storage at the cache as you can spare. I run
about 1.5 GB on my firewall (the storage is otherwise unused).
Memory and storage are offloaded from my workstations.
- Portable. Put the cache where it's useful, needed, and/or out of
the way. Again, mine's on a firewall.
To create a transparent cache, you'll create a NAT rule for your
firewall to redirect INTERNAL traffic bound for EXTERNAL sites on PORT
80 to the PROXY listener port.
I actually do this under OpenBSD, my rule is:
rdr dc0 0.0.0.0/0 port 80 -> 192.168.0.1 port 8080
Cheers.
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