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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Transparent Caching Solutions - Information Wanted
Interesting discussion - no many comments from ISPs currently using caching regarding the effectiveness - cache hit rates or bandwidth "saved". Any strategies for populating caches (in addition to user hits)? Bill At 12:08 PM 2/3/98 -0800, you wrote: >> Or, if you are a "Cheap Bastard (tm)", you can take a copy of Squid >> (http://squid.nlanr.net), and an OS which can handle transparent proxying >> (Solaris, Linux, etc), a high performance RAID, and have yourself the >> equivilent. Squid is a heirarchial web cache/proxy/accelerator available for >> free. > >i love squid. i use it as a nontransparent proxy and also as the web server >accelerator for all of the content we publish. squid is really cool, >especially squid-novm. > >i worry a bit about the supposed proxy capabilities of these other os's. we >don't think of ourselves as idiots here when it comes to kernel programming, >and so the fact that it's taken a year of wizard level kernel muckraking to >get a system that can do thousands of simultaneous transparent sessions makes >me think that it's actually a hard problem. > >we got basic kernel transparency working in an afternoon. the devil is in >the details though. > > U-NET Limited - Global Transit Division Transit for ISPs from PAIX, MaNAP or Telehouse London mailto:[email protected] http://world.u-net.net Tel 44 1925 484444 Fax 44 1925 484466
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