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Re: upgrading more then one box by downloading the files once!



on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 07:10:49AM -0700, Dave Carrigan (dave@rudedog.org) wrote:
> "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Also, if you prefer not to use a transparent cache (I sometimes want to
> bypass squid), then you can install a normal squid proxy and set an
> environment variable:
> 
>   http_proxy=http://squidbox.dom.ain:3128/
> 
> Apt honors the http_proxy environment variable if it's set.

True.  But with a transparent proxy on your gateway there's *no* client
or node configuration to be done to utilize it -- for any host served by
that gateway.  Hence:  transparent.

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