Wan compressor parent is a TCP proxy which makes TCP connections send less data, which improves TCP performance and throughput over lossy links, slow links and long links.
This improve performance over satellite, wireless and WAN links.
If you have issue about the nonexistent module, download and install this package: https://articatech.net/download/wancompressor-debian7-64-1.0.tar.gz
This a client-server Architecture where the Artica Proxy parent located in the headquarter provides Internet access to Artica Proxy located on each remote offices.
It requires two instances, running on each side of the link that you want to optimize.
We call child to the instance running in the remote site (for example, a branch) and Parent to the instance running in the datacenters or in the the side where the high speed connection to the applications exists.
Setup the Parent Compressor
- Go into Your Artica server act as “Parent”
- On the TOP menu, click on Your Proxy
- Select Listen ports link
Listen port Links
- Create a new port
- Turn ON the Wan compressor Parent option.
- Set the listen port of the Wan compressor service.
- Set the listen port of the Proxy port (in Proxy port ) that will receive requests from the Wan compressor service
- Select the added port in the table.
- You can tune the memory cache in MB and the Disk cache in GB that the service can use in order to cache TCP compressed requests
- To not use the cache and just compress protocol, set 0 on each field.
Setup the client Compressor
- Go into the Artica server act as client
- Choose Your Proxy
- Click on the link “Parent Proxy“
- Under Status section
- Turn ON “Use Parent Proxy” and click on Apply
- Under Parents Proxies section
- Click on Add a Parent Proxy
- Give the ip address and the listen Wan compressor port of your parent proxy.
- Choose Wan Compressor item in the drop-down list.
- Set a local port that will be used by your proxy in order to pass trough the compressed tunnel
- Click on the added parent
- Select the Cache parameters tab.
- You can tune the memory cache in MB and the Disk cache in GB that the service can use in order to cache TCP compressed requests
- To not use the cache and just compress protocol, set 0 on each field.
