I have a Gentoo notebook (*yeah baby!*) and I'd like to run GPRS on it. Because I will need it quite often and no other internet access will be available, I'd like to minimize my traffic. My GPRS is billed @ traffic rate.
My first thought was squid and perhaps some sort of dns caching proxy but squid seems like a huge program for a notebook (i'd like to spare some battery time also). I found dnsmasq, maradns and pdnsd in portage. Ad blocking would be nice too (via somekind list of regex'es).
My question is, what is your opinion on such matter? Am I shooting in the wrong direction here? What would you do?
Thanks in advance for your replies!
Janez
Notebook setup to minimize GPRS traffic
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Server Proxy?
do you have a reliable server you could connect to via GPRS? If you put a proxy on that server to do heavy compression on your downloads. combined with a good local DNS cache, your GPRS session will appear faster, and use less bandwidth.
That is how my palm PDA works over GPRS. there is a proxy that palm runs that strips down webpages and resizes images. I'm not sure exact what software you'd need to do this though.
That is how my palm PDA works over GPRS. there is a proxy that palm runs that strips down webpages and resizes images. I'm not sure exact what software you'd need to do this though.
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