Patrick Nix Jr. wrote: > In another attempt to light the bandwidth load we are going to setup a > cache server. Any thoughts or suggestions on which one to use?
I know this is the popular answer to everything on this list, but Mikrotik RouterOS has a decent, and dead-simple to use, proxy/cache package. The tricky part is probably finding the "right" place in your network to put it, and configuring firewall rules (so that Web traffic gets sent to the proxy/cache server), and even those aren't too difficult. At least the "old" one was pretty good - my experience with it was probably four years ago, but at the time it worked well. Between then and now, I believe Mikrotik has written their own (previously it was just the Squid open-source package, with their pretty interface on top). If you're comfortable with Linux, you can do it yourself, but the time you'll save is easily worth the low one-time cost of a RouterOS software license. Whatever you use, make sure you know how to handle "exceptions." Some Web sites just don't play well with being proxied. (One of our customers is a dealer for a major auto maker, and the proxy/cache system basically killed their whole business, as the stuff in Detroit just flat refused to function.) You'll want an easy way to test this sort of thing at your desktop, to try to reproduce weird customer calls - and there will be some doozies. David Smith MVN.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
