On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 01:22:42PM +1000, John Wiltshire wrote:
> What is the best for a web proxy on a home machine acting as a NAT box -
> Apache or Squid? I currently have apache set up (because it was easy), but
> I'm wondering if I would be better off using Squid.
apache is probably quite a bit "lighter weight" than squid - esp if
you plan on running apache anyway.
apache doesn't seem to join two simultaneous downloads of the same
url, whereas squid does.
squid seems to like pinging things to find the best upstream proxy
(and lots of other proxy-proxy communication), which may just be
overhead you don't need (i'm sure you can turn them off, if you really
want)
since i use the proxy mainly to save bandwidth on simultaneous
"apt-get upgrades", squid was really the only choice. before then i
was using apache for normal browser caching, and it worked fine.
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