On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Samuel Greenfeld <greenf...@laptop.org>wrote:
> Unless there are clients that are going though the router but are not > going through the schoolserver, I think this risks more harm than good. > > The reason this can be useful is not for internet browsing, but for the tons of GB of content (videos, maps, wikipedia) stored locally on the XS. > Going back to the microprocessor analogy, the Level 2 cache usually is > much larger than the Level 1 cache, and only slightly slower. Most > community routers using USB sticks will be much slower than a schoolserver, > and will not have the RAM to cache anywhere close to the same number of > files in memory as the schoolserver, or the storage space of a hard drive. > > > The analogy doesn't run very well, as the AP is serving 20 users while the XS could be serving 200 or more. > > > On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Anish Mangal > <an...@activitycentral.com>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I think it was Tony (please correct me if I'm wrong) who pointed out that >> network capacity in a School Server setup can be a hindrance (esp >> considering 200 kids, and 20 kids per AP). >> >> This weekend, I attempted to run squid on a TP-Link router. I used a USB >> drive as a storage medium, and flashed the router with the OpenWRT SECN >> firmware. The initial results seem quite promising, and I'm going to >> explore this a bit further. >> >> If anyone's interested in hacking on this or has thoughts/feedback, >> please chip in :-) >> >> Drawing a "microprocessor" analogy, having a L1 cache on the XSCE and an >> L2 cache on the AP, and some smart fine tuning, we could potentially make >> much more efficient use of the network capacity we have. >> >> This can be REALLY advantageous if someone is planning to use the SECN >> firmware in the mesh mode (no ethernet cables whatsoever). The AP's >> wouldn't have to talk to each other as often, if they all have small cache >> memories embedded in them. >> >> Cheers, >> Anish >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Server-devel mailing list >> Server-devel@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel >> >> >
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