[Sderby] squid proxy servers?

[Clive Jones]

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On Friday 14 Feb 2003 10:09 am, Graeme Phillipson wrote:

> The satalite link does have pretty high latency, about 500ms each way, but
> thats not the cause of the trouble here (its insignificant if your
> downloading linux isos). Its quite an odd system, the satalite router has=
 a
> proxy of its own, which you must use, if you don't you allways get very
> slow speeds.

The proxy seems to send a http request for a page, and seems to get all of =
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information to be able to satisfy further http requests without going over=
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the sat link.  For that reason routing some packets over ISDN will not have=
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much benefit.

> I had supposed that the proxy reformats the data in some way,
> to make it more appropriate for the way the satalite system works. It wor=
ks
> really well with one connection at a time, but multiplexing a connection
> allways seems to make it painfully slow.

You need squid, and a dns cache.  The easiest way to acheive this is to=20
install ipcop on a spare machine, which is quick and easy once you have rea=
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the docs.  The latency will still be noticable, but the overall performance=
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feels very similar to ADSL.

http://www.ipcop.org/

HTH

C.
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