Been there, done ALL of that. Not worth the headaches. Bandwidth is CHEAP now... time is still the most valuable thing in this business...
I can spend hours messing, tweaking, fighting, adjusting, etc. a cache proxy, or in that same amount of time I can go install a business connection for $500/month and pay for ANY additional bandwidth it may save me. And I can do this every day. :) Travis Microserv On 9/1/2010 2:29 PM, Blake Covarrubias wrote: > On Sep 1, 2010, at 5:14 AM, Travis Johnson wrote: > >> Yes, but the bandwidth savings are not worth the headaches (another box or >> two to maintain, some sites don't like to be cached, customer support calls, >> web sites blocking a certain IP address because ALL the traffic from your >> network is coming from the cache server IP, etc.). > Its possible to prevent Squid from caching certain sites. Just create an ACL > to deny caching them. Still too much to maintain? Deny caching all content by > default, then create an ACL which only allows caching of sites you choose. > > If you don't want your proxy requests sourced from a single IP then use > TProxy (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/Tproxy4). With this your proxy > can be fully transparent appearing as if the requests were sourced directly > from a client instead of your Squid box. > > Get a Cisco router and redirect traffic to Squid using WCCP. If your Squid > box dies the router automatically stops redirecting the traffic, and your > users continue to surf the web normally. > > -- > Blake Covarrubias > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
