[117576] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FOSS WAN Acceleration Software
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurent CARON)
Sun Sep 20 17:40:19 2009
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:39:59 +0200
From: Laurent CARON <lcaron@unix-scripts.info>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <b067bc890909101640t8c0e524t3af1fa0c935983d8@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: BH <bh05gc@myblackberry.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 11/09/2009 01:40, BH wrote:
> Hello,
> I was wondering if anyone had experience or could recommend free open source
> WAN Accelerators/Optimizers. There seems to be only one FOSS project called
> TrafficSqueezer but development has stopped and the project is still in an
> Alpha stage.
>
> I am not interested in the offerings of Cisco (WAAS) or Riverbed (StealHead)
> or any other appliance based solution.
>
> Thank-you in advance for any and all replies.
>
Hi,
Should you use an IPSec implementation like Free/Open Swan between your
sites, you can try to enable compression on your tunnels.
Laurent
