Re: [SQU] DoS with squid]

From: fooler <fooler@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 14:20:53 +0800

Veaceslav Revutchi wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I run a transparent proxy with wccp. It seats on a 2mb external link.
> Now imagine someone on a 64k link starting a web copy of some porno
> site with lots of large files and he will start millions of simultaneous
> http transfers. All of them will be taken over by the proxy which will
> oveload the entire external link, so we have a 64k link capable of
> generating megs of uneeded traffic.
> quick_abort is disabled.
>
> Can anyone suggest a way around this?
>

bandwidth management

fooler.

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