We have quite a few PoweRouter 732s running Caching on networks. 1000+ users in some cases.
------------------------------ * Dennis Burgess, CCNA, A+, Mikrotik Certified Trainer Link Technologies, Inc -- Mikrotik & WISP Support Services* 314-735-0270 http://www.linktechs.net <http://www.linktechs.net/> */ Link Technologies, Inc is offering LIVE Mikrotik On-Line Training <http://www.linktechs.net/onlinetraining.asp>/* Patrick Nix Jr. wrote: > So is it safer/better to avoid caching servers altogether? > > __________________________________________ > > Patrick Nix, Jr., > csweb.net > (918) 235-0414 > http://www.csweb.net > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ==================================================================== > ATTENTION: This e-mail may contain information that is confidential in > nature. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this e-mail > and notify the sender immediately. Thank you. > ==================================================================== > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of David E. Smith > Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 1:07 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Any thoughts on a decent cache server > > 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: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
