Re: Traffic Shaping (Squid & Cisco)

From: Anthony Rumble <smilie@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 09:53:10 +1000 (EST)

On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Jordan Mendelson wrote:

> I'm having trouble with Squid saturating a huge amount of our available
> bandwidth when pulling down large objects. I've heard of the delay_hack
> feature which would allow me to control bandwidth, but it doesn't appear to
> exist in 1.2.b22.
>
> Does anyone know where to find the patch to add it? Can a Cisco router
> traffic shape on a protocol-by-protocol basis (or at least port-by-port)..
> and if so does anyone have an example config?

We use a linux box as our firewall, and it has Traffic Shaping
capabilities which we use to control our users "browsing" during buisness
hours.

Works like a charm

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Received on Fri Jul 17 1998 - 16:55:19 MDT

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