27 Aug
2003
27 Aug
'03
6:06 a.m.
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Magnus wrote:
Let's say Joe has 50 RHEL servers, all pretty much identical, and properly licensed. There is a flurry of security activity one week and it takes about 50MB of new packages to patch one system. That's not much of a reach. Each of the 50 servers downloads 50MB of packages through https (i.e. not cached anywhere) over Joe's single business class DSL connection. 2500MB of downloads, split up across 50 clients, all hitting a DSL connection at once (not to mention the RHN servers). This is lunacy.
This is what the RHN Proxy product was created for.
-- Elliot For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.