Option for a "local mirror"?

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Dec 23, 2010, at 11:08 AM, Marko Käning wrote:
> 
>> or set up your local network to force traffic through squid (so you don't need to configure anything on the individual hosts). I know of a bunch of people who've used squid + wccp specifically to make softwareupdate not have to re-download large updates multiple times over a somewhat-slow link.
> Yes, I considered squid myself already a few times. Looks like I have to investigate that eventually.
> What is wccp, BTW?
> ;-)

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

of course it looks like Mac OS X doesn't do GRE tunnels (someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) so if you went this route you would need a *BSD or linux system

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