Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 19:42:52 +0200 From: Barry Irwin <bvi@rucus.ru.ac.za> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proxy Server Recommendations ... Message-ID: <19990929194252.K23989@rucus.ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909271539270.33998-100000@thelab.hub.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909271539270.33998-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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On Mon 1999-09-27 (15:42), The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > Looking at reducing bandwidth usage at our local University, and have > proposed setting up a proxy server so that there isn't *as much* traffic > going out related to the WWW ... > > Anyone have any recommendations on one that is good? I'm going to be > running the test on a FreeBSD box, and trying to push it as an end > solution, so something in ports is great... There are a couple of proxies out there, of which squid is probably the most well known, this however only caters for www traffic and to a limited extent ftp. What was found here was that the nntp traffic was a MAJOR cause of network congestion. As a result an nntp proxy operates in addition to the caching Squid proxy. Unfortunately I'm not near a freebsd system at the moment to check ports, but I know there is software such as nntpcache ( http://nntpcache.org)) avaliable. Possibly try a search for nntp or cache on http://freshmeat.net. AS a secondary note, a cache really only becomes effective if users are made to use it. so Firewalling port 80 connects to the outside world from all but the cache server , at router level would probably be a good idea. ( as it would eb with any service you are attempting to proxy. Transparent proxy could be implemented, but things become a little trickier. Barry -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Barry Irwin IRC: balin@zanet (#linux) bvi@moria.org http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~bvi Whois BI414 - PMPN8EZ - http://moria.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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