RE: [squid-users] Skymaster 630e "Internet Page Accelerator" repl acement?

We have a similar product here in Australia from a company called ursys.
While I haven't seen it, my understanding was that it was an appliance type
device. Regardless of wether you need a windows box to control the
satellite connection, you can still have a squid box upstreaming to it and
clients using the higher performance squid cache.

-----Original Message-----
From: gustavo@linuxdicas.com.br [mailto:gustavo@linuxdicas.com.br]
Sent: Monday, 21 July 2003 06:03
To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: [squid-users] Skymaster 630e "Internet Page Accelerator"
replacement?

Hello,

There is a service here in Brazil that uses the Skymaster 630e
(http://www.gilat.com/Products_Skystar360e_OverView.asp) "modem". It
communicates via satellite and it have a huge delay in the requests... so
browsing the Internet isn't possible, to solve that they provide a "Internet
Page Accelerator", unfortunately just for M$ Windows.

The software runs with Wine, but requires a local windows installation :(

The basic operation of that software is: it's a proxy that reduces ACK
requests "packaging" requests like this: Each page is downloaded in 2
requests: 1 for HTML and 1 for Images and likes

So I wonder if that is possible with Squid or other GPL software? If it's
not possible with Squid right now, how difficult would be to implement that?

Thanks,

Gustavo

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