> What I'd LOVE to figure out how to set up is a spoke and hub cache system.
Squid (and probably other caches) support something similar, in the form of parent and child caches. It sorta works backwards from what you described, but the net benefit would be similar. Basically, you set up caches at your POP locations, each of which is configured to use a bigger cache in your NOC as their "parent" cache. (Of course, you have to set up suitable firewalling at every tower, to redirect traffic from that POP's customers to the "local" cache.) Customer types in ebay.com, goes to their "local" cache. If the information they want isn't there, that cache checks with the big cache in your NOC. If it also doesn't have that page, it fetches it from the public Internet, and passes it on down. It's not a push system, but that's probably alright. I'm not sure how well a push system would work anyway. Anything like, say, the monthly crop of Windows Update downloads, they'd get spread out to the individual caches quickly enough anyway. 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/
