Stephen Frazier wrote:
I use DEBIAN so it may be slightly different than novell. What I did was setup one PC running Linux on the network that can get outside the firewall and has a fixed IP address. It is running APT-PROXY and has the addresses of the DEBIAN servers. All the other machines are set up so when they do an APT-GET to download a fix they only know about my APT-PROXY machine. That way fixes are only sent over the internet one time. The fixes are distributed to all the internal machines from an internal machine. This is much faster. The machine installing a fix get it over our gigabit Ethernet instead of going out over the internet.
Apache also makes a fine proxy, and it looks just like a local server (because it is). In my previous post, rhel.demo.lan is serving off the local filesystem, but to the user it would be exactly the same if it were a proxy. It has advantages over squid and apt-proxy because it uses standard ports and URLs. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ do not reply off-list ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
