Peering Squid Caches over MW (was Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Is Melbourne Wireless dead?)

[Chris Samuel]

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On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 3:56 pm, Tony Langdon (ATC) wrote:

> Setup Squid on a machine that can see both the Internet and the wireless
> network and only allow access to *.wireless.org.au from the wireless side.

The other possibility is to peer peoples Squid caches together across MW using 
cache digests.   That way if you're after a page that someone else has 
already got then you can retrieve from their cache rather than grab it over 
the Internet.

You don't permit Internet access through your Squid, merely allow other 
(authorised) Squids to grab stuff that you've already got.

I do this at work and it works well, peering with other Squid caches at 
Universities in NSW and QLD over GrangeNet (where the traffic is free and the 
bandwidth is high!). :-)

There's a bunch of folks doing exactly this over on Bigpong where they get 
their intra-BP traffic for free:

	http://users.bigpond.net.au/deadcities/

Chris
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 Chris Samuel  :  http://www.csamuel.org/  :  Melbourne, VIC

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