Paul Gear said: > Barry K. Nathan wrote: >> ... >> I would expect the effect of SSL on bandwidth use to be minimal. If you >> really want to reduce bandwidth, I think there would be more gains if >> some RPM packages were compressed using bzip2 rather than gzip. > > It has a huge effect, for the simple reason that it is *non-cacheable*. > If you have multiple systems that need the packages, you have to turn > on useNoSSLForPackages if you don't want to download every package for > every machine. I would trust a local mirror of updates.redhat.com and the "--packagedir" option for up2date more than I would trust a proxy cache. -- William Hooper
