From: "Peter Berger" <peterb@ncne.org> It's worth noting that as pipes get bigger and faster, caching assumes a greater, not lesser, importance. Higher bandwidth and constant latency means a greater bandwidth-delay product, and a corresponding degradation in performance. Caching is just as much about local replication to reduce latency as it is about "conserving bandwidth." Particularly when a large proportion of the stacks out there perform very poorly under the prevailing conditions in today's Internet with its medium-to-high, jittery latencies and occasional to frequent packet loss (cough, cough, Redmond, cough). Far better to use a proxy on a platform like BSD that at least doesn't have an egg-sucking TCP implementation. ---Rob