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@xxxxxxxxx
