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Date:      Tue, 24 Jul 2001 08:29:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To:        Jeremy Buckner <jeremy@cableaz.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Web Caching Engine
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10107240827140.16360-100000@misery.sdf.com>
In-Reply-To: <000701c11456$8e3893a0$1396f13f@caz>

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On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Jeremy Buckner 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?
> 

  Uhh... does Cisco make a cache?  They make load balances, and content
aware switches, but their cache product certainly isn't well known if it
exists.  If people are putting in dedicated caches, they go with NetApp
NetCaches, or CacheFlow.

  You can do something similar in FreeBSD.  You do transparent cache
redirection, and Squid can do the caching.  You will not get the request
per second rates that a NetApp or CacheFlow can do, but if your site isn't
large, no one will know the difference.


Tom


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