From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 28 4:10:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zagnut.hotpop.com (zagnut.hotpop.com [204.57.55.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B7821500B for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 04:10:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ert@hotpop.com) Received: from superonline (unknown [212.252.144.192]) by zagnut.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id DA34963A06; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 07:09:43 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <00d801bf09a1$abbf7860$14000080@com> From: "Ertan Kucukoglu" To: "Chris Dillon" Cc: "FreeBSD" References: Subject: Re: Proxy Server Recommendations ... Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 14:07:06 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 X-HotPOP: ----------------------------------------------- Sent By HotPOP.com FREE Email Get your FREE POP email at www.HotPOP.com ----------------------------------------------- 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." > Hello, As an information you can get the latest version from http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/ and comple and use it as well. Regards, Ertan Kucukoglu ert@hotpop.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message