webwasher and xfree

[Michael Schaap]

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