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On Sunday, 28 April 2019 21:37:19 BST n952162@×××.de wrote: |
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> - Peter Humphrey suggests: |
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> - http ftp proxy |
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> In what way is that different from rsync which I thought I'd already |
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> configured? |
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I assume that means you're using rsync to synchronise the portage database. |
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Then, whatever you use to fetch distfiles for installation, it uses ftp or |
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http transport to fetch them. Squid sits on the network with its cache of |
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previous fetches and supplies whatever hasn't changed, thus at least halving |
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network traffic if you have two or more Gentoo machines to maintain. |
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You can also point your browsers at squid (that's what it's meant for, in |
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fact); their responsiveness also improves. Since I had fibre broadband I |
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hadn't bothered with squid, but after installing it on a local machine |
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yesterday I found it still made an observable difference. |
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Squid doesn't need a powerful machine to serve a small LAN; I have it running |
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happily on an old single-core, 32-bit Atom N270 box. Although squid apparently |
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scales well up to much larger user numbers, it's remarkably easy to set up - I |
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had it running in under half an hour. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |