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Re: Data Compression


From: Glenn English <ghe () slsware com>
Date: 06 Aug 2003 18:08:54 -0600

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 09:06, Hendra Santosa wrote:

I have several sites and all of them are running Linux. I use frame relay to
connect these sites. The mail traffic between sites is annoying and eats
almost 50% of existing bandwidth. Is there any open source application to
compress the traffic or to limit bandwidth usage between sites under Linux
(in order also to secure connection)?

If you are admin at all the sites and could use VPNs, the package
OpenVPN can be configured to compress quite heavily. If I remember
correctly, it will also throttle bandwidth.

-- 
Glenn English
ghe () slsware com


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