[squid-users] Fw: indroducing me

From: Edward Millington <edward@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 09:17:49 -0400

> Hi Sir!
>
> Please try implementing squid 2.5 and check out the squid.conf.default
file
>
> Edward
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Денис Овсиенко" <pilot@dgtu.donetsk.ua>
> To: <squid-dev@squid-cache.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 7:22 AM
> Subject: indroducing me
>
>
> >
> > Hi !
> > I have a suggestion of a feature for Squid and now post an introduction
of
> > me (according to rules).
> > I am a system/network administrator, although software
> > development is my formal profession. My primary OS is Linux (ALTLinux
> > now) at work and at home.
> > I use Squid for serving needs of my users (the whole university). It's
the
> > biggest load I've ever seen.
> > I'm interested in QoS and implement it via CBQ part of Linux netfilter
to
> > manage cross-campus channels.
> > One of our tasks is to divide our bandwidth between students and other
> > people. It's only possible, when different IPs are used to feed traffic
to
> > each class of consumers. One solution could be to have at least 1 box
for
> > each class, but what will happen if I'm told to implement 16 classes of
> > priority ?
> > It's ineffective to keep a box just for indicating by it's IP certain
> > out/ingoing traffic. And there's the problem of syncronizing all the
> > caches to avoid fetching a cacheable URL 32 times finally.
> > I suggest to introduce a feature to solve this problem: allow to map
ACLs
> > into multiple outgoing addresses.
> > e.g. in squid.conf
> >
> > tcp_outgoing_address x.y.z.1
> > tcp_outgoing_address x.y.z.2 moreprio
> > tcp_outgoing_address x.y.z.3 lessprio
> > tcp_outgoing_address x.y.z.4 superprio
> > [...]
> > acl Students ....
> > acl TechSupport ...
> > acl Employees ...
> > acl MiscStuff ...
> > acl Boss ...
> > acl Security
> > [...]
> > map_class superprio Boss TechSupport
> > map_class moreprio Employees
> > map_class lessprio MiscStuff
> > # the rest remain unmapped and use default outgoing address.
> >
> > I guess, that it's not too hard to implement, but don't have currently
> > time to dive into Squid sources. :(
> >
> > DO4-UANIC
> >
>
Received on Fri Sep 06 2002 - 07:18:05 MDT

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