on Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:08:28AM -0700, der.hans (deb-user@LuftHans.com) wrote: > Am 18. Sep, 2001 schwätzte Andrew Perrin so: > > > I have a home setup with a DSL line coming in to one debian box, then two > > other debian boxen connecting to it via ipmasq. Each box is set up to do > > an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade on a periodic basis for security and > > up-to-dateness reasons. > > > > My question is this: effectively, each time they upgrade, I'm downloading > > three copies of each package separately. Is there a relatively easy way to > > archive the files locally and have the two boxen behind the ipmasq'ed > > computer just get their updates from it? > > I've been using squid in transparent proxy mode for more than a year. It was > awesome. Also caches stuff for a while, so it helps for updates that are > done the next day as well. > > squid seemed to also speed up general web browsing. Even stuff that > definitely wasn't cached. Don't know why on that last part, but I'm not > about to bitch about things improving :). I find the latter argument hard to believe. It *is* possible to speed up browsing of sites that use heavy graphics content if the graphic elements are constant, and can be cached. I get about a 15-20% cache hit rate, which means by typical browsing speed increases by roughy the same amount (20% of bytes are served at local speeds). For speeding apt-get downloads, squid has the advantage of being transparent, efficient (you're not mirroring packages you don't need), and very effective. > BTW, my previous firewall was a Motorola PPC 100 with 64MB of RAM that > only a few hundred MB disk space allocated to squid. Made a huge > improvement. P-200, 96MB, 2 GB disk (about 1.6 GB devoted to cache), running OpenBSD. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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