[128853] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: iPhone updates and required bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Wed Aug 18 15:31:12 2010
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <E56FAF5D-BD3E-471D-8BF4-616B4E1E9518@oicr.on.ca>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:29:18 -0400
To: Greg Whynott <Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Aug 18, 2010, at 3:20 PM, Greg Whynott wrote:
> 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 =
machines, I am unsure if they have a similar solution for their hand =
held devices. I am assuming they do or soon will. I'm on the road =
right now, when 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
>=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.
This is what I am doing for my home-lan. I have a few machines of the =
Mac variety and having a properly tuned transparent cache seems to solve =
the major issue.
This isn't #apple forum, but back in the 1.0.0 they did post binary =
'patch' updates for the first few revisions but eventually moved to =
using the full 'restore' image. I suspect this was in direct response =
to the "jailbreak/unlocker" community, as well as just plain-ol bugs as =
it relates to the binary patch process. There seemed to be a large =
number of people who had trouble with that.
I'm sure if you approached the CDN that hosts the #apple updates they =
would be willing to put a copy of swcdn.apple.com on your network, as =
well as appldnld.apple.com
The squid user forums have lots of tips about how to do this for apple =
and microsoft sw updates.
- Jared=
