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Date:      Tue, 24 Jul 2001 16:50:22 +0100
From:      Paul Robinson <paul@akita.co.uk>
To:        Jeremy Buckner <jeremy@cableaz.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Web Caching Engine
Message-ID:  <20010724165022.A57652@jake.akitanet.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <000701c11456$8e3893a0$1396f13f@caz>; from jeremy@cableaz.com on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 08:37:32AM -0700
References:  <000701c11456$8e3893a0$1396f13f@caz>

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On Jul 24, Jeremy Buckner <jeremy@cableaz.com> wrote:

> Has anyone ever used/configured FreeBSD as a web caching
> engine. Can it be done or do I have to buy the $50,000 Cisco
> product? Also it be seamless to my customers (no setting
> proxy settings or anything like that). Any ideas?

Take a look at squid. If you put it in transparent mode, it's behaviour is
the same as expensive products. However, you may want to look at bakeoff
results to see if it's powerful enough for what you need:

http://cacheoff.ircache.net/

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