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Ulrich Uys

I have installed XG home firewall at home.

 

Great firewall, I would like to know if the firewall is capable of doing caching of updates and general install to save bandwidth on the internat, like windows updates and other updates?

 

If this is possible is there any procedure that can be send back on this post...



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  • 0 in reply to rfcat_vk

    this will be really usefull feature as specially if you do not have high speed link , when the update happen steaming is buffering would help a lot in this regard, where do i suggest this espesially for the home firewall...

  • 0 in reply to Ulrich Uys

    Hi Ulrich,

    please leave the home firewall out of the request because it will more than likely be ignored, it will be just important to a small business.

    ideas.sophos.com should get you to the suggestions pages.

    Ian

  • 0 in reply to rfcat_vk

    I am still struggling with the Idea behind Caching. 

    In theory, it always sounds nice to do it.

    But in a more practical approach, most of the content, you download, is client specific. Even Windows Updates seems to be "hard" to cache, because you dont know, which are important, which are not, which should be stored, which not etc. SCCM etc. take place for content delivery. Sophos Endpoint updates are most likely done by a update cache etc. 

    As far as i can tell, most of the products, which requires a "big data flow" have their own caching service. 

    And keep in mind, somebody has to find a way to "call", which content is "worth it" to cache. Because you are quite limited in your Cache storage place nowadays. Simply take a look at the size of a windows update 1803 to 1809. You would have to store these updates in your Cache. How long will you store this? And what happens, if you want to upgrade from 1709 to 1809... 

    Caching is quite complex in that case. 

  • 0 in reply to LuCar Toni

    Hini,

    I understand what you are saying and I could never get my head around the UTM caching of downloads, to me it never seemed to work for all the reasons you have pointed out.

    I suspect the UTM kept them for a short while like a couple of hours then discarded if they weren't called/used?

    Ian