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@xxxxxxxxx
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
