jburnes
10-25-2005, 08:19 AM
I've been thinking about good ways to minimize bandwidth consumption. One of the things that occurred to me was to create some sort of mirror cache for the major package sites.
This way we could upgrade packages (RPM, Deb etc) without burning Internet bandwidth. Now this would require that bandwidth to the local package mirrors not be counted against bandwidth.
Does this sound reasonable?
Why burn bandwidth if we don't need to?
We could elect to mirror certain sites. We could even make it automatic by directing request to the package sites to a squid cache. That way the first person to ask for a package requests it from the cache who gets it and hands it to him. Since you never accessed the network beyond TecTonik it's not counted against bandwidth quotas. The next person who asks for the package will get it automatically and rapidly from the Squid cache.
(Excuse me if mirrors have already been setup, but I just missed it in the docs).
Thoughts?
Thanks,
JBurnes
BufferZone Security
This way we could upgrade packages (RPM, Deb etc) without burning Internet bandwidth. Now this would require that bandwidth to the local package mirrors not be counted against bandwidth.
Does this sound reasonable?
Why burn bandwidth if we don't need to?
We could elect to mirror certain sites. We could even make it automatic by directing request to the package sites to a squid cache. That way the first person to ask for a package requests it from the cache who gets it and hands it to him. Since you never accessed the network beyond TecTonik it's not counted against bandwidth quotas. The next person who asks for the package will get it automatically and rapidly from the Squid cache.
(Excuse me if mirrors have already been setup, but I just missed it in the docs).
Thoughts?
Thanks,
JBurnes
BufferZone Security