One of the ways is to use tos field, but I think you need to patch squid for it. Brief google search gave this: http://www.it-academy.bg/zph/ I've never used it though so I'm not sure if I can be of any more help on it. Hope this helps Martin On Thursday 26 May 2005 15:32, Peter Kaagman wrote: > Hi list... > > I work for a school in the netherlands with a 2mbit Internet uplink and > about 3800 eager student who want to play games on the Internet using > one of our 800 workstations. > > Problem was that those game playing students are concentrated in 2 of > our 6 physical locations... and they consumed the bandwidth which the > other location would like to use for educational purposes. > > The thing we did first was use squid... with success. The hit ratio on > data transfer is 25-30%... "free" bandwidth. > > Today I took the plunge and started to use HTB traffic shaping... and > (to my surprise) I got it going without much troubles. > > The setup I have chosen first divides the load over two classes: > - one for Internet rate 2mbit and a 2mbit ceil > - a second for our DMZ rate 98mbit and a 100mbit ceil > > Next I sub-classed the Internet bucket into 6 classes each with a > 333kbit rate and a 2mbit ceil. > > This has had the effect that my DMZ can be accessed at full speed while > they fairly share the Internet uplink. > > And the way it looks now it works :D > Hail to all those people who wrote those fine docs _o_ > > This is enough reason to address this list... just to say "Thank you!", > but there is more. > > At the moment I do not max out my Internet link... reason for this is I > guess the squid proxy... > The way it works now is that I have 2 types of filters in effect: > - The DMZ: all packages with a src ip from my DMZ go to the big 98/100 > bucket. > - The Internet: all packages with a dst ip in one of our 6 networks > gets placed in one of the 6 333/2000 buckets. > > But there is of course a src of packages I do not catch this way... and > these are the squid cache hits. Because I filter on destination the cache > hits get treated the same as cache misses. But cache hits are in effect > local traffic... they do not originate from the Internet. > > So here (finally) the question.. > Is there a way to identify cache hits from misses? > > I took a look at the advanced filtering chapter of course, but am > really dazzled by that (and I thought I understood TCP/IP a bit ;)). > > Some further info that would perhaps help is that squid is run as a > transparant proxy on the router/firewall. > > regards > > Peter Kaagman _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc
