[GLLUG] question/suggestion for adding a proxy/cache.
David Singer
david at ramaboo.com
Sat Apr 9 17:53:56 EDT 2011
What do you want to cache? Since internal bandwidth is free and
plentiful I assume you are caching items coming into your network.
Browsers already do a pretty good job at this and you can turn up the
cache significantly on most of them.
David
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 14:51, Peter Christenson
<simple.solutions at comcast.net> wrote:
> Hi all, I am working on a redesigning my home network, and hoping to drop
> some of my bandwidth by adding a cache server.
> so what I would like to do is setup a container with squid to cache and
> reduce bandwidth. I thought I would ask and see if anyone on the list had
> done anything like this and if so what upsides/downsides there will be?
> also
> current network configuration
>
> (modem) -surfboard
> |
> {router} -wrt54gs running tomato 1.27
> / | | \-------/wire to
> workshop/------{switch-wifi} -befsr41
> [openvz server] | | /
> | | \
> / |
> / | | \
> [my main pc] | [pc]
> / \ [Media Player]
> |
> [pc] [Media player]
> {16 port switch}
> ||||||||||||||||
> [Media server]-----/||||||||||||||\---[pc]
> [accesspoint]------/||||||||||||\-----[Media Player]
> [wifes pc]-------/||||||||||\------[Media Player]
> |||||||||
> (all other ports are wired but not active)
>
> thanks for any help and thoughts in advance!!
> Peter.
>
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