Re: [squid-users] Re: cached MS updates !

From: Philipp Rusch - New Vision IT <philipp.rusch_at_newvision-it.de>
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:36:45 +0100

Richard Neville schrieb:
> Henrik Nordstrom <henrik <at> henriknordstrom.net> writes:
>
>
>> On mån, 2008-06-16 at 08:16 -0700, pokeman wrote:
>>
>>> thanks henrik for you reply
>>> any other way to save bandwidth windows updates almost use 30% of my entire
>>> bandwidth
>>>
>> Microsoft has a update server you can run locally. But you need to have
>> some control over the clients to make them use this instead of windows
>> update...
>>
>> Or you could look into sponsoring some Squid developer to add caching of
>> partial objects with the goal of allowing http access to windows update
>> to be cached. (the versions using https can not be done much about...)
>>
>> Regards
>> Henrik
>>
>>
>
> Hi, Just thought id let you know, I currently am using an IPCop Firewall,
> and one of the plugins (the reason i went with IPCOP) is an
> update accelerator plugin, that stores Windows, Apple, Symmantec, Avast and
> linux updates on the
> firewalls drive..
>
> I actually found this site because i was trying to get help, and the developer
> of the plugin seems cranky at the best of times.
>
> Basically the system works, updates that a PC doesnt have gets loaded from the
> firewall rather then the internet, but the updates themselves, it seems that MS
> use multiple servers to store each update, now when I update a SP2 XP pro
> system, it sees SP3, it downloaded a 850meg file, thats fine, it must be
> multilanguage versions that its downloading..
>
> the problem is that i update another SP2 system and it starts downloading the
>
> 850 megs again as its got the same file name, but comming from a different
> server.
>
> would anyone here know how to rectify this?
>
> im a 100% noob at linux but i have managed to get it up and running without too
> much issue.
>
> here's the plugin website for those interested.
>
> http://update-accelerator.advproxy.net/
>
> any help would be appreciated :)
> planetxdvd_at_gmail.com
Why don't use the way Hendrik already recommended ?
I'd use Microsoft WSUS, its free and easy to setup.
And it will manage all these issues you have automagically.

HTH, Philipp
Received on Sun Dec 21 2008 - 15:37:23 MST

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