MTs implementation is very simple. Not a whole lot to configure, but thats what is great about it. Also, if your network is moving 250 gig every 4 hours, that don't mean everything will be cached. ie. CNN has a cache time of 0, so it won't be cached anyways.
------------------------------ * 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>/* Travis Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > Are you somehow redirecting traffic to the MT box, or having all the > traffic go through the box? > > Cache hit rates are going to depend on the size of the network... a > 250GB drive would only cache about 4 hours of http traffic on my > network... hit rates would be less than 5% I would guess. > > I've also heard MT doesn't work very well doing caching. Has this > changed since v3 was released? > > Travis > Microserv > > Dennis Burgess wrote: >> You can do this as well with Mikrotik. >> >> MT is very, very simple. We have seen avg savings of between 20-40%. >> With 25-30% being avg. Also, you can specify what sites you want to >> cache, typically done by IP, but you could also say that you only want >> to cache sites that are on different areas etc if you got the IP ranges >> that you wanted to use. >> >> Something else, is that you can specify a bit for the cache hit data. >> This means, you can throttle data that comes from your cache differently >> than the customers standard package! So, data that comes from your >> cache, maybe goes at full wireless speed etc. >> >> We usually drop in either a 80 gig or 250 gig SATA2 drive into our >> PoweRouter 732s. If they have a large customer base, we drop in 2 gig >> of ram just to be on the safe side. >> >> ------------------------------ >> * 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>/* >> >> >> >> David E. Smith wrote: >> >>>> 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: 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
