[GLLUG] question/suggestion for adding a proxy/cache.

[Charles Ulrich]

I did this for awhile a few years back. It's relatively easy to set
up, just configure Squid to be a caching proxy and point your web
browsers at it. It's possible to set up a transparent proxy, but I
don't recommend this since you'll probably run into that one weird
device that won't work right with it. The only reason I stopped using
Squid for caching was because all of my desktop hard drives were
faster than the server which was doing the caching.

Charles

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 5:51 PM, 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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