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Old 28th November 2014
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Default Webpage caching on a bridge

When I was in charge of technology (don't laugh please ), at the small Wireless ISP we had (still do) way back in 2004, we had a unique requirement.

We wanted to maintain a webpage cache on a bridged system, so that the load on our upstream would be reduced. And IP addresses would pass both ways transparently. We did try different solutions then. If my memory serves me right, it had something to do with squid and t_proxy. Bandwidth was expensive then in India (it has dropped to approx 6.5% of what it was then). We tried caching transparently a few times on linux boxes and failed.

I'm wondering if there is a way to achieve this on *BSD using some available ports.
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A transparent proxy is an HTTP proxy that operates without having to be configured in a client browsers. One can use squid as a transparent proxy, oryou may also be able to use the built-in relayd(8) daemon, it can also be used as a transparent proxy.

Key is directing traffic through the service, and a bridge is not necessarily required. Both the squid link above and the relayd.conf(5) man page discuss using PF's divert-to rules on the router/firewall that is operating the transparent proxy.
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Hmmm. Squid may offer a better solution for client caching -- looking through relayd's transparent proxy capabilities, the use-case is primarily server side, for capabilities such as server pool management and SSL acceleration. It's use at the client side is for URL filtering.
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Old 29th November 2014
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I will have to recheck this sometime during this week, but I'm pretty doubtful whether caching on a bridge will work. From what I recall, the cache never ends up getting hit at all by the clients.

Unless ofcourse we are using some hardware (router/firewall) before/after our cache which can run in sync with our cache
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As I'd stated, a bridge may not be necessary. That depends entirely on your network implementation.

Here's an example of a transparent proxy without a bridge:
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{Internet} - [router with proxy] - {LAN}
And here's one with a bridge:
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{Internet} - [router] - [bridge with proxy] - {LAN}

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/usr/ports/www/middleman May do some of it...
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/usr/ports/www/middleman May do some of it...
To the best of my knowledge, this proxy server has not been ported to OpenBSD.
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