yes.. fowarding it via squid is an option. I was hoping to use netfilters queues and features. similiar to what netnice.org can do on freebsd On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 09:57:14 +0100, Antony Stone <antony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wednesday 23 June 2004 4:06 am, Ian Holsman wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > I would like to write a apache module which limits the speed we send > > out the response based on some internal algorithm (like a cookie, or a > > line in the request header, or some random number ;-)). > > I don't know if Apache can do this sort of thing itself, but Squid certainly > can (the phrase it uses for that is "delay pools"). Since you want to do > this for a server whcih you run, rather than your clients accessing external > servers, you want Squid in Accelerator Mode rather than Proxying Mode. > > See http://www.squid-cache.org for more info. > > > also .. any tips on how to this on a BSD box? > > You can certainly run Squid under BSD (and you certainly can't run netfilter > under BSD). > > Regards, > > Antony. > > -- > There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes. > > - Billy Connolly > > Please reply to the list; > please don't CC me. > >