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> Well, folks, I am writing to you through my now functioning masquerading
> Linux-driven Mac II. Since I last wrote asking for help on my routing
> (I figured it out), I added memory and found a cheap processor upgrade
> on e-Bay; it is now running at 33 mhz, with 20 mb of ram (7.8
> bogomips!).
Cool
> There is really only two things I want to address further (beyond
> firewalling better): 1. Sometimes I get http errors when hitting some
> sites, or get "not found" errors (usually both are corrected by
> reloading). Does anyone have any idea how I can prevent this?
could this be related to MTU? (this is a shot in the dark suggestion)
> 2. The second issue is improving on browsing speed. Performance is not
> bad (particularly on ftp downloads), but I am the only one on the
> network at present; I would like to do optimal. Squid's web caching
> sounds like an idea; but the last time I tried to install squid, it
> caused serious numerous errors (I am running Debian 2.1). I would like
> to know, before I try it again, that there is something worthwhile in
> doing so. Particularly, on such a slow machine, will it provide adequate
> caching to provide something of a boost to web-browsing?
>
> On a similar note, what does tproxyd do? I tried to use it, thinking
> that if I gave it the IP of @Home's proxy (tproxyd -t xxs.xxx.xxx 8080)
> that it would boost the speed of internal masq'd machines, but it caused
> my box to freeze (and didn't seem to boost the speed before it froze).
> Right now I have put in the the proxy (http://proxy.xxx.home.com:8080)
> for each machine's browser, and that seems to work. Any thoughts on
> optimizing browsing configurations?
Have you looked at transparent redirects, I use it here to good effect to
make config easy (all access to port 80 are redirected to a cache)
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Tim Fletcher .~.
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