Not IMHO, You can just bypass the caching server for sites that give you trouble. I've had to by pass 3 or 4 so far. We only cache HTTP. One of our towers average bandwidth to the internet dropped from around 5Mbps to around 3Mbps and after 3 weeks up it has cached over 55GB. Mikrotik also lets you bypass bandwidth queues for cached data so subs get the pages fast.
We use a Powerouter 732 as the core router at this tower and have a 250GB drive in it. We first tried dropping a cheap box plugged into a 532a but the CPU was hammered by the packets coming in one one interface, going out to the cache box, and coming back in the router, then going back out the interface connected to the radios. Caching with the router itself has really helped a lot. Jim jeffcosoho.com Patrick Nix Jr. wrote: > So is it safer/better to avoid caching servers altogether? > > __________________________________________ > > Patrick Nix, Jr., > csweb.net > (918) 235-0414 > http://www.csweb.net > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ==================================================================== > ATTENTION: This e-mail may contain information that is confidential in > nature. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this e-mail > and notify the sender immediately. Thank you. > ==================================================================== > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of David E. Smith > Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 1:07 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Any thoughts on a decent cache server > > Patrick Nix Jr. wrote: > >> In another attempt to light the bandwidth load we are going to setup a >> cache server. Any thoughts or suggestions on which one to use? >> > > I know this is the popular answer to everything on this list, but > Mikrotik RouterOS has a decent, and dead-simple to use, proxy/cache > package. The tricky part is probably finding the "right" place in your > network to put it, and configuring firewall rules (so that Web traffic > gets sent to the proxy/cache server), and even those aren't too > difficult. > > At least the "old" one was pretty good - my experience with it was > probably four years ago, but at the time it worked well. Between then > and now, I believe Mikrotik has written their own (previously it was > just the Squid open-source package, with their pretty interface on top). > > If you're comfortable with Linux, you can do it yourself, but the time > you'll save is easily worth the low one-time cost of a RouterOS software > > license. > > Whatever you use, make sure you know how to handle "exceptions." Some > Web sites just don't play well with being proxied. (One of our customers > > is a dealer for a major auto maker, and the proxy/cache system basically > > killed their whole business, as the stuff in Detroit just flat refused > to function.) You'll want an easy way to test this sort of thing at your > > desktop, to try to reproduce weird customer calls - and there will be > some doozies. > > David Smith > MVN.net > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
