I need accelerating WindowsUpdate procedure in my network, where I'm actually using Squid 2.5 to go out to the public network; Windows clients must be often updating because there is no remote system to admin. There are acl to permit navigation to some users and in this case their browser have this proxy to reference, while other users have no configuration. I thought to use another machine acting as squid accelerator next to original Squid. I configured Squid accel. like this:
http_port 80 httpd_accel_host virtual httpd_accel_port 0 httpd_accel_with_proxy off httpd_accel_single_host off redirect_program /usr/local/bin/map --> script Squid accelerator has no parent cache. This Squid accelerator has two network interface cards: one on public network and the other on my lan. I configured 3 virtual IP address on public network NIC, because I used a Perl script to point to three domains: 192.168.0.1 v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com 192.168.0.2 www.windowsupdate.com 192.168.0.3 www.microsoft.com I set my IE 6 browser with no proxy and and no detect automatically configuration. I run squid accel. and typing in browser url http://192.168.0.2 Windows update likes starting to terminate abnormally. I can't understand how to solve problem. I'd like accelerating users to download patches, service packs at high speed.... even if someone have no proxy set in I.E. In this way I can reach WindowsUpdate from any point in my lan regardless Internet Explorer settings. Best regards Sampei
