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I'm using squid at my house; I have a measly 56K connection, and it
actually helps out...  About 1/3 of my web traffic doesn't hit the leased
line, which is a help.  

As for ease of use, it's really simple; I compiled it on NetBSD running on
an old Macintosh without a hitch, so I assume it would work out of the box
on FBSD as well.

You can see more at http://squid.nlanr.net

Charles

On Wed, 9 Jul 1997 axtjr@UAA.ALASKA.EDU wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm running a P5/166, 32 Megs of RAM, 3 gig HD, NE2000 comp. NIC, running
> FreeBSD 2.2.1. I have the apache web server, configured and running. Due
> to bandwidth constraints, I was wondering if there is a software package
> or a method that would allow popular web sites to be cached and updated on
> a routine basis. Allowing my users to surf locally sparing my pathetic
> inet connection for necessary network traffic. I'm not expecting to
> download the entire WWW, but just popular sites and pages.
> 
> Any Ideas, comments or pointers to resources for doing this would be
> greatly appreciated. Thanks in Advance.
> Tom
> 
> ************************************************************************
> * Tom Riley, CNE4				CTS Network Services   *
> * Network Technician                       Univ. of Alaska Anchorage   *
> *            -------------------------------------                     *
> *     As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing.          *
> ************************************************************************
>