havent been following this one, so dont know if its been mentioned before, but have you looked at WSUS?
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/wsus/default.aspx let that collect the updates - preferably overnight - and distribute them to your workstations/servers 2009/5/13 Paul Mansfield <[email protected]> > put in a big squid proxy with a large disk cache, and or set up windows > clients to auto-download updates during the night so at least congestion > happens outside critical times > > if you're using managed switches, can you throttle > back individual ports? > > otherwise, traffic shaping may be your friend > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org > >
