I've seen patch to squid somewhere. The trick is to encode original requester information into new request packets. It can go into "priority" field - it is 32bit and is userspace-settable. I'm currently thinking about doing something like it but have no time ... On Wed, 22 May 2002, Gavin White wrote: > oh well, just wondered if there was a way to get squid to keep the original > IP. > > I'm currently working on a fully automated mac address authentication, > bandwidth control thing for WISPS - it takes a csv from rodopi and modifies > it's iptables and htb rules according to the latest client data. In fact, > we're starting to migrate today. If anyone wants to take a look at the > script, mail me and I'd be glad to send it. > > Gavin > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stef Coene" <stef.coene@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "Gavin White" <gavin@xxxxxxxx>; <LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 10:27 AM > Subject: Re: [LARTC] squid + tc > > > On Wednesday 22 May 2002 09:00, Gavin White wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have some htb rules set up to govern download speeds through a linux > box, > > depending on the IP address of the destination machine. > > > > My problem is that when the end users choose to use my squid cache, which > > sits before the htb machine (and has to be there), the htb machine thinks > > the traffic is going to/from the squid box, so nullifying all my > bandwidth > > rules. > All squid traffic will have as source address the squid box, so you can't > know who is doing what. But squid can also do bandwidth management. Take a > look at delay pools, > > Stef > > -- > > stef.coene@xxxxxxxxx > "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" > http://www.docum.org/ > #lartc @ irc.openprojects.net > > ************************************************************** > Scanned by MailScan Content-Security and Anti-Virus Software. > Visit http://www.mwti.net for more info on eScan and MailScan. > ************************************************************** > > > > ************************************************************** > Scanned by MailScan Content-Security and Anti-Virus Software. > Visit http://www.mwti.net for more info on eScan and MailScan. > ************************************************************** > > _______________________________________________ > LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ > >
