[128851] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: iPhone updates and required bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Whynott)
Wed Aug 18 15:21:02 2010
From: Greg Whynott <Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca>
To: JoeSox <joesox@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:20:52 -0400
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikfFJ0tEwCbLee=xJzFckWpPdMj-aqvCp22BSWQ@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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sorry Joe if i wasn't clear, what i was trying to say is I know there is a=
solution to address the bandwidth issue caused by updates for OS X machine=
s, I am unsure if they have a similar solution for their hand held device=
s. I am assuming they do or soon will. I'm on the road right now, whe=
n I return to the office I'll take a look at the OS X update server and see=
if there is any provisions for the iPhones and friends. =20
perhaps a squid caching server in-between the device network and internet? =
back in the day this is how i mitigated other many to one client update =
issues.
-g
On Aug 18, 2010, at 3:07 PM, JoeSox wrote:
> Interesting.
> Do you have to configure the iPhone devices or just use its standard sett=
ings?
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> Thanks, Joe
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> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Greg Whynott <Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca> =
wrote:
>> I set up an OS X server which hosts updates for the rest of the company,=
so the OS X client machines poll/pull updates from the internal machine a=
s opposed to 100 of them pulling the same updates over the internet. saves=
bucket loads of bandwidth and you can "pre ok" individual packages, so t=
he client just updates without prompting. I'm not sure but I suspect they=
might have something which allows their other devices to poll this same so=
urce. it would seem reasonable anyway..
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>> probably not a very useful answer but there it is. 8)
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>> -g
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>> On Aug 18, 2010, at 2:54 PM, JoeSox wrote:
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>>> Am I the only one that gets ticked off at the Apple iPhone update
>>> procedure and the amount of bandwidth it needs?
>>> Is there any secret I am missing to cut down on the required bandwidth
>>> needed for it (caching the update somewhere etc)? I don't own an
>>> iPhone (DroidX user here) and am unfamiliar with the update, all I
>>> know is it uses tons of BW.
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>>> Thanks, Joe
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