Re: [squid-users] Time-based ACLs for long connections

On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:57:10 -0400, Jason Healy <jhealy_at_logn.net> 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
Received on Mon Mar 22 2010 - 23:24:51 MDT