Re: [squid-users] HTTP QoS after SQUID ?

> Good afternoon,
>
> I have two networks (A and B). Users on network A should have internet
> priority over users in network B. We have a server acting as an internet
> gateway between A, B, and the internet; and we're using iptables and tc to
> do some shaping (priorizing HTTP over SMTP, A over B, etc...).
>
> This server also runs SQUID cache, which is used by both networks A and B
> users. The problem is that it's impossible to enforce A over B priority
> for HTTP using the source IP because all outbound requests come from
> SQUID.
>
> Having two SQUIDs (one on each network) needs additional hardware and is
> not planned right now.
> I have thought about setting SQUID to use different source port ranges for
> outbound connections (based on the network the request came from), so that
> I can shape packets from this information. I googled for such and SQUID
> config, it looks like I'm not the first to ask this question, but all I
> found were pieces of C code. Is there, somewhere, a configuration trick
> that allows to do this ?

tcp_outgoing_tos + ACLs I think does what you are after.

Amos
Received on Wed Oct 15 2008 - 01:17:10 MDT