Re: [squid-users] Squid for personal use...

Ah, OK... this is a use case I hadn't thought of... my little one is
not at typing age yet. But soon!

On 1/12/2011 6:52 AM, Bucci, David G wrote:
> Another use case on a PC is as part of a parental filter type package. E.g., I use DansGuardian + Squid + Firehol on our Ubuntu boxes at home, having teenage kids.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: K K [mailto:kkadow_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 11:35 AM
> To: squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
> Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [squid-users] Squid for personal use...
>
> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Helmut Hullen <Hullen_at_t-online.de> wrote:
>>> Is there any advantage of using squid on a personal computer? I can
>>> see that in a household, running squid on a central server could be
>>> beneficial. What if there was only one machine in the home?
>> It's a kind of big cache, too. You can choose which program caches - the
>> browser(s) or squid.
> If there's only one machine in the home, and you only use Firefox, you
> would NOT see a lot of advantage from using Squid as compared to
> letting Firefox directly use the same amount of cache space. Sure,
> you can use the advanced features of Squid to control what gets cached
> or rewrite headers, but for the latter, there are extensions to get
> the same benefit. If you have multiple clients (or maybe multiple
> browsers on one machine), or have a central fileserver with lots of
> spare disk space, Squid starts to make more sense. For example, I
> have multiple machines on a 1GB network, so on each client I set a
> tiny disk cache, and let Squid cache it all centrally instead.
>
>
> There is one other reason to use Squid in a small household network --
> if you pass all home->Internet traffic through a firewall running
> something Unix-like, use transparent redirection to route all
> household traffic through squid for caching and logging. Now you can
> see/cache some traffic from background programs on your PC, Boxee,
> your smart BlueRay player, or your iPad or other WiFi tablet, and also
> generate accounting reports (e.g. with Calamaris).
>
> Many household devices have embedded browsers or pull content from the
> Internet, but have minimal embedded caching. If you can use Squid to
> cache, for example, the cover art for Netflix movies, you might speed
> up browsing Netflix instant queue from Boxee?
> http://forums.boxee.tv/archive/index.php/t-22038.html
>
>
> Kevin
>
>
Received on Thu Jan 27 2011 - 21:04:10 MST