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

[Richard Houser]

No need to even point most browsers to it, unless you want browsers to
ignore the cache by default.  If you create a ".pac" file (special
JavaScript based format) and serve it via http://wpad/wpad.dat, the major
browsers will pick it up on their own.

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Charles Ulrich <charles at bityard.net> wrote:

> 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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