Re: [squid-users] Rate limiting inbound requests in squid conf

Hi Elizer,

Ok. I can try with external_acl ... I need to configure the domain
based dropping / min /sec..

Could you please give me an examples ?

It would be very great help.

Thanks,
Sekar

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Eliezer Croitoru <eliezer_at_ngtech.co.il> wrote:
> Hey Sekar,
>
> Basic IPTABLES setup should be able to do that for you.
> it's better to do it in IPTABLES level then doing it in the upper level of
> the application such as squid.
> It will allow the request to be rejected\close properly in the network level
> while what squid will prefer or will send error page instead of the content
> which I dont really like.
>
> If you are willing to sacrifice some performance you can use external_acl to
> count the requests per sec per ip and to allow or deny by that the request
> and present to the client a deny_info.
>
> Regards,
> Eliezer
>
>
> On 11/23/2012 1:55 PM, Sekar Duraisamy wrote:
>>
>> Hi Team,
>>
>> Can we limit the inbound request rate in Squid configuration like 30
>> request/min , 10 request/sec like this regardless of the size.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sekar
>>
>
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Received on Fri Nov 23 2012 - 12:34:02 MST