On Oct 7, 2008, at 3:06 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:17 AM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> In existing deployments (not trials) content filtering >> is being done upstream in the internet connection. > > Interesting! I didn't know that - > >> Content filtering is a very sensitive subject, and any >> offering made by OLPC should make it VERY CLEAR >> that the country is responsible for the filtering -- both >> the initial setup and maintaining the filter. > > Yup. And also very clear that we believe that filters are quite leaky > -- meaning that they will have problems with it, and a plan / process > to deal with it. Some local teams may find planning for such > situations hard. > >> Squid has been supported since build 161, long before >> Martin started wholesale improvements. Easier to install ? >> Right now you have to type one command line: >> /etc/sysconfig/olcp-scripts/TURN_SQUID_ON >> to permanently enable Squid. This was done simply >> because not all installation will want it. > > Yep - TURN_SQUID_ON works well on the current xs-0.5 dev version. > However, I'm not very happy with it due to memory footprint, and > considering replacing it with a apache + mod_cache_disk which - from > what I've seen - plays to the strengths of linux's disk i/o handling.
No disagreement as to the desirability of the change, but last time I looked, apache did not support use as a transparent proxy. Using it to replace squid would require setting the browsers on all laptops to point to it. Have they changed that ? Cheers, wad _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
