Re: [squid-users] reloading settings on a regular basis

On 30/09/2012 12:43 p.m., Eliezer Croitoru wrote:
> On 9/29/2012 9:38 PM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:
>> I have A, B and C with a potential for quite a few more (not
>> necisarily ISPs but also browsing restrictions or lack thereof).
>> I guess I over-simplified things a bit, but we have lots of user based
>> stuff going on, in addition we also want to start capping bandwidth
>> usage on a per user basis so that resources are shared more fairly
>> etc.
>> Regards,
>> Eli
>
> Well still the only difference is that you will need to design the
> acls you are going to use.
> are you using tproxy or intercept?
> you can try by listing a of the things you want to implement and then
> plan the network design by that.
>
> if you have 6 ISP's for example you can put one proxy not cache at all
> for the interception and accounting stuff which is basically acls and
> other stuff.
> then use cache_peers with 6 incoming ports that will decide the
> outgoing port by the incoming port.(just something in my mind).

or a "OK tag=ISP-1" from the external ACL helper and a tag type ACL in
tcp_outgoing_* to determine either outgoing IP or TOS marking.

I recommend 3.2.1 or later for this type of thing though we did a lot of
bug fixing and performance polishing of this type of config in 3.2.

>
> if you have some ICAP service then put it somewhere in the
> infrastructure in a place that wont effect you delay pools etc.
>
> I dont remember about resources consumption by a no cache at all squid
> but it should be low.

Squid uses a few MB base footprint and up to (usually under) 256KB per
concurrent transaction. The rest is cached data.

> I do remember you wanted somewhere to cache youtube etc..
> I have a working solution for that and I'm working on
> store_url_rewrite which can benefit from this two.
>
> you can also add some captive portal that has user validation in it
> for wireless places ( I was working on a way to do it for transparent
> proxy like in wifi-coffe shops that has agreement and other stuff like
> "prepaid cap" that is being used in cellular providers.
>
> just make a list of things you need\want to get from the network and
> from there the only question is how to put the whole puzzle together.
>
> Regards,
> Elizer
>

Amos
Received on Sun Sep 30 2012 - 10:52:37 MDT