Re: New features in Squid CIFS caching

Hi everybody,

> That sounds more like WAN optimisation than proxying.

Yes of course, but Squid also optimize the WAN. Squid is a Proxy&Cache

Squid is proxy and cache for http, ftp, gopher and wais (whois also ;-) )

>>> I have a little question: is it possible to use Squid for caching
>>> another kind of traffic?

>>>>
>>>> Control — Proxy Services
>>>> Proxy support for multiple protocols
>>>> -> HTTP, CIFS, SSL, FTP, MAPI, P2P, MMS, RTSP, QuickTime, TCP-Tunnel, DNS
>>>> -> Bandwidth management on all proxy services
>>>> -> SSL Termination & Proxy (forward and reverse)
>>>> -> Control encrypted traffic for all users and applications inside and
>>>> outside the enterprise
>>>>

>>>> This product caches and compress CIFS and several other protocols.
>>>> Could be a new feature in next versions of Squid

>>> I doubt it.

Me too.... :-0

>>> CIFS is 11 years expired. Very complicated, and not relevant to HTTP. It's a file
>>> system which Windows and Samba wrap nicely into other forms which Squid

>> When I said CIFS, I mean Windows Network File System (Samba indeed )

>> BlueCoat caches Windows resources in a VPN or private WAN environment

>> It's really a usefull caches this kind or traffic

 I think that I am looking for, something like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CacheFS

 But for the entire network not only for one server.

 For the Squid point of view, it is a transparent caching of the
Windows Files System
trying to optimize the WAN and speed up the accesses.

Thanks for you effort for understanding my English

Salu2.
Received on Fri Jun 12 2009 - 18:25:20 MDT