Re: Personal proxy not honoring buffer size settings

On 2/18/2014 6:25 PM, Kevin G. McCoy wrote:
> I have never understood the need for the dnet proxy server.  Is it for people
> with dial-up or some sort of pay-by-the-minute Internet access?

i use one to keep the traffic down on my WAN connections... all my machines talk 
to the proxy whenever they want to and i don't clog up dnet's pipes with traffic 
every few minutes... i've been fussed at in the past about that when i had my 
proxy delivering completed packets in small batches (<20 or so)...

> It seems like  more trouble than it is worth - plus it messes up logging so
> that you can't check individual workstation stats.

really? i've never noticed that... but then again, the proxy has those stats and 
that's where you should look for those details if the individual workstations 
are not being logged in the main feed... all of my machines seemed to have been 
the last time i checked several years (10+?) back when i was actually interested 
in stats ;)

> I have over 50 computers working on OGR and never saw the need for a proxy.  Is
> there something I am missing?

other than the traffic on your pipe and that of dnet (paid for by donations), 
probably not...

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