Installation of Lan-Cache

Requirements

Ubuntu 18.04, should work on 16.04 aswell
Static IP
20 Available ip addresses next to the primary ip address
git

this installation will use 20 IP Addresses, starting from the ip address the server has and requires that the ip address is an static ip. example, server has 192.168.1.201, the installation will use ip addresses from 192.168.200 to 192.168.1.220

make sure that these ip addresses are not used by some other device on the network

Download url for Ubuntu 18.04.1 Server

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/18.04.1/release/ubuntu-18.04.1-server-amd64.iso

Clone the git repo

apt-get isntall git

git clone -b master http://github.com/nexusofdoom/lancache-installer

cd lancache-installer

Edit parameters before installation

nano install-lancache.sh

Changeable variables, leaving the defaults is fine
 File path for lancache
 lc_srv_loc="/srv/lancache"
 Primary DNS Server
 lc_dns1="8.8.8.8"
 Secondary DNS Server
 lc_dns2="4.2.2.2"
 Proxy cache size, measued in Megabytes (MB). Default is 500GB
 lc_max_size="500000m"

Run scripts with sudo

sudo ./install-lancache.sh

To access netdata open broswer and navigate to http://your-primary-ip:19999

Traffic Monitoring on CLI

Monitor through nload
apt-get install nload -y
nload -U G -u m -i 1024000 -o 1024000 (shows bandwith in Mbit/s, scales graph to 1 Gbit/s)
   
Monitor network usage through iftop
apt-get install iftop -y
iftop -i eth0
(Instead of eth0 just use your physical interface)

DNS Settings for clients

Clients needs to have the Cache server as DNS server in order to redirect traffic through the cache server

there might be some additional dns records required to cache all traffice, if your service provider for example have their own Steam Cache

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