TLDR: I now only have to download microsoft and steam updates once for all 13 systems in the house.
I finally set up a LAN Cache. I got tired of windows update sneaking in and eating all of my bandwidth, killing movies, etc. We have 4 regular Steam clients, plus 3 that don’t run very often; and we have 13 Windows 10 systems. It seems like settings always revert, and they update whenever they want, or at 100% bandwidth a few months after setting the throttles low.
https://lancache.net/ caches steam, windows updates, and several others. It was much easier to set up than a squid webproxy on my router. This should make it so anything that is downloaded only downloads once. only have 200GB to throw at it right now, but that should help a bunch. I need to set it to auto-start on boot, and to give it more space eventually, but I’m just really happy it’s working now. And apache, SSLH, and DNSMASQ on the same host still working.
My router already pointed to my server for DNS Masquerading, so I could manually override things. I added a second IP address, and modified lancache.yml to put all services only on the new IP address. I updated dnsmasq.conf to forward to lancache only, because it was not obeying the fallback rules.
This means if lancache dies, I have to edit dnsmasq to keep the home network functional. So many layers.
