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.
