If the problem is your bandwith to the internet then Novell's ICS is a great
idea. If the problem is with your web sever, and your Internet connection
is not bogged down, then I'd stick with CacheFlow. <---- My humble
opinion.
Andrew Bagrin
Secure-1
865-803-2748
www.secure-1.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Carric Dooley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Milliken, Larry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Checkpoint Discussion List (E-mail)
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Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: [FW1] Suggestions/Info for web caching servers
>
> If performance is #1, take a look at Novell's ICS. I probably would'nt
> consider and NT solution either. Even on a RAID 0 partition, I have seen
> drastic diminishing returns once you get over 2 gigs or so of cached data.
>
> That was approx 3500 users on a T1... I had to set cache aging to like 8
> hrs, and that doesn't buy you very much on decreased link utilization.
>
>
> Carric Dooley
> Senior Consultant
> COM2:Interactive Media
>
> "But this one goes to eleven."
> -- Nigel Tufnel
>
>
> On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Milliken, Larry wrote:
>
> > Looking for some info/suggestions for web caching/Proxy servers to use
> > behind Firewall-1..The solution can either be Unix or NT based..The
emphasis
> > is mainly on performance.
> > Any suggestion/info would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Larry Milliken
> > IT Security Engineer
> > US LEC
> >
>
>
>
>
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