And I have to wonder if "proactive" caching saves anything other than time.
I remember those "download accelerators" that would pre-download every link on the current web page, but those were really only useful in a time-charged situation. The main difference between squid and Ryan's description is "updates every hour" I know of no current web cache that fetches/updates content just in case its needed. -----Original Message----- From: Scott Ullrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 29 June 2006 8:56 a.m. To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Package Request - Cache Server ??? On 6/28/06, Ryan L. Rodrigue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know if this is possibe, but I was in a guy's office and he > had a Computer rack mounted that he said was a cache server. I had > never heard of such a thing, but he said it monitors what pages are > frequently visited, download them, periodically checks for updates, > and serves the cached pages to people on his network that request it. > Example: Everyone's homepage in the office is http://www.google.com. > It caches Google.com (Specially pics and stuff. Anytime a person opens > there browser, it serves them the cached page and uses 0 internet > bandwidth. and it checkes every hour for any changes. Squid? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
