Great. I am installing it now. Thanks for all the help. I will try it on my test box and see how it works. >Ryan
"Stupidity is not a handicap, Park Elseware" -----Original Message----- From: Craig FALCONER [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 4:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [pfSense Support] Package Request - Cache Server ??? Certainly. There is a squid package for pfsense, but if you're serious about caching then you should run it on a separate machine. Squid is packaged for just about every BSD or linux distro available. The basic idea flow is this: Client asks for http://criggie.dyndns.org/ (for example) Request goes to cache server (set in web browser properties) Cache server checks index to see if that web page html is in cache. If yes then serve up the local version, if no then go fetch that page and serve it to client while storing a copy locally to accelerate the next access. Likewise, all the images on that page will be added to the cache the first time someone looks at that site. Theres a lot more to it of course... The cache can check to see if a file has changed or not on the source web server, and serve up the local copy if it hasn't changed... And the cache server has to roll old cached files out if they haven't been accessed for a while. Check out http://www.squid-cache.org/ for more info. -----Original Message----- From: Ryan L. Rodrigue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 29 June 2006 9:49 a.m. To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [pfSense Support] Package Request - Cache Server ??? Alright. That was just how the guy explained it to me. It may not fetch anything automatically. I thought most of those web accelerators just droped the graphics. I don't know, i really never caught on to the Accelerator phase cause i already had a broadband connection when it came out and really didn't care. I know at the office we work at 80% of our employees go to the same website over and over every day. It has alot of graphics they see over and over, so a cache server would help to relieve some of our internet connection. Can anyone give me some more info on squid. I have never heard of this. -----Original Message----- From: Craig FALCONER [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 4:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [pfSense Support] Package Request - Cache Server ??? And I have to wonder if "proactive" caching saves anything other than time. I remember those "download accelerators" that would pre-download every link on the current web page, but those were really only useful in a time-charged situation. The main difference between squid and Ryan's description is "updates every hour" I know of no current web cache that fetches/updates content just in case its needed. -----Original Message----- From: Scott Ullrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 29 June 2006 8:56 a.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Package Request - Cache Server ??? On 6/28/06, Ryan L. Rodrigue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know if this is possibe, but I was in a guy's office and he > had a Computer rack mounted that he said was a cache server. I had > never heard of such a thing, but he said it monitors what pages are > frequently visited, download them, periodically checks for updates, > and serves the cached pages to people on his network that request it. > Example: Everyone's homepage in the office is http://www.google.com. > It caches Google.com (Specially pics and stuff. Anytime a person opens > there browser, it serves them the cached page and uses 0 internet > bandwidth. and it checkes every hour for any changes. Squid? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
