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Re: webwasher and xfree
- From: Michael Schaap <cygwin at mscha dot org>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 15:24:00 +0200
- Subject: Re: webwasher and xfree
- References: <3EBABF22.50100@gmx.de>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Kai wrote:
Hi there...
I am using cygwin and XFree on a win xp machine. I really am enjoying
it normally. But the moment I start the webfiltering programm
webwasher, everything under X runs really slowly, which is quite
unnerving, because especially if I´m online (the moment the webwasher
comes useful) I use X-forwarding to access a remote machine. It has
nothing got to do with my computer, because all other
windows-processes keep up working fine and there is also enough memory
and power left. As webwasher works as a proxy-engine, it might be,
that X and the webwasher are using some same port. I already changed
the port webwasher is using from 8080 to 80, but that did not work, so
my idea might or better seems to be wrong.
Has anybody got any suggestions, what I could do?
You're probably using the "Configuration Free" mode of WebWasher,
right? I tried that for a while, but had all sorts of problems, so
switched back to one of the other configuration modes.
I believe the "Configuration Free" mode does stuff at the network level,
so that could indeed cause the slowdowns you describe. The other modes
work as a web proxy, so they should leave your non-browser network
traffic alone.
HTH,
- Michael