On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:57:10 -0400, Jason Healy <jhealy@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > I work at a school where we would like to limit bandwidth during certain > times of day (study times), but relax those restrictions at other times of > day. We're looking into delay pools to shape the traffic, and time-based > ACLs to assign the connections to different pools. I'm pretty sure my > guess about how time-based ACLs work is correct, but I wanted to confirm > before I set this all up and have a major "duh" moment. > > Assignment to a delay pool using a time-based ACL would only occur at the > start of the connection, correct? In other words, if I have a ACLs like: > > acl play time MTWHF 15:00-19:59 > acl work time MTWHF 20:00-22:59 > # plus some assignment to delay pools using "play" and "work" ACLs... > > Then a user who starts a long download at 19:59 will enjoy the benefits of > the "play" ACL for the duration of the download, while one who starts at > 22:59 will be penalized with the "work" ACL until their download completes. > There is no re-evaluation of the ACL while the download is in progress > that would notice that the ACL time boundary has been crossed. > > Just want to check before I start architecting our solution... > Correct. Amos
