From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 27 12:42: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BF30154E3 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 12:42:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id OAA81066; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 14:42:02 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 14:42:02 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proxy Server Recommendations ... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, 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... Squid -- ports/www/squid22. I have been using it for a couple of years, ranging from a 486SX-25 with 16MB RAM and a 50MB cache, to a PIII-500 with 256MB RAM and a 19GB cache (it doesn't need much CPU, really, but RAM requirements go up with the number of objects being cached). If my figures are right, it cuts down on our HTTP and FTP traffic by about 30%. Depending on your traffic patterns, the results could be either better or worse. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures (SPARC under development). ( http://www.freebsd.org ) "One should admire Windows users. It takes a great deal of courage to trust Windows with your data." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message