[squid-users] Squid on Intermittent Connections

http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2001/08/02/offline_squid.html

Quote:

One of the more frequent requests on the Squid mailing lists is for help
configuring Squid to operate well on dial-up or demand-dial networks.
Offline mode will function for some of these networks, but is far from
ideal. Unfortunately many of the features of Squid's offline mode appear
to have largely vanished during the development of the Squid 2.x series.
In the 2.3 STABLE 4 version, the offline mode has nearly no effect at
all.
Squid can be patched to work well with dial-up and other intermittent
connections. Having a cache on the intermittent side of the link can
take some of the curse off these connections, providing access to cached
information and reducing bandwidth use on the link. Unpatched, Squid can
work reasonably well on dial-on-demand connections, but dialing in each
time it needs to resolve a query can become expensive.

-- 
Florin Andrei