[squid-users] RE: EXTERNAL: Re: [squid-users] Bandwith limit

Actually, you CAN shape incoming traffic rates with qdisc/tc. The key is to setup a pseudo-device, route incoming traffic first to that pseudo-device then your "real" interface, and attach a queuing discipline to outgoing traffic leaving that pseudo-device.

See: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/netem#How_can_I_use_netem_on_incoming_traffic.3F

And here's another explanation, a little clearer in some parts (but too sparse in others, imho): https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Traffic_shaping -- this approach uses the hierarchical token bucket rather than network emulation - I'm honestly not sure if the HTB approach is better thatn the netem approach.

There's documentation out there on other ways to do it, but in a lot of cases those approaches depend on components that never made it into the kernel.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alfredo Rezinovsky [mailto:alfredo_at_fing.uncu.edu.ar]
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 5:56 AM
To: squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [squid-users] Bandwith limit

El 20/10/13 15:24, Antony Stone escribió:
> On Sunday 20 October 2013 at 19:09, Alfredo Rezinovsky wrote:
>
>> El 20/10/13 13:03, Antony Stone escribió:
>>> There's nothing you can do to stop a packet arriving at your router
>>> - you can only decide what to do with it afterwards.
>> The package arrives to my router but it can be delayed before reaches
>> app layer.
> Ah, sorry - I had thought that you were asking if it was possible to
> limit the bandwidth of traffic coming in over your ISP link.
>
> Obviously, you can restrict the bandwidth of the connection between
> your router and Squid, as you are already doing:
>
>> I know how to do it with qsdisc in linux. I can queue them and let
>> them pass with delay.
> If that provides the effect you are seeking, I'd say that is the best
> approach.
>
>> All I want to know is if I can do this with squid.
> No, since the receiver can never really control incoming bandwidth.
> Only the transmitter can limit the rate data goes over a link (whether
> that's your ISP Internet connection, or the hope between your router and Squid).
>
> Squid's delay pools can obvious limit the bandwidth from Squid to the
> clients, but that's only an indirect way of limiting the bandwidth
> from the source into Squid.
>
> It looks to me like you're doing it the best way possible already.
>
Delaying the packets arribal to their final destination do limits the incoming bandwith. The packets arribes late, the acks are sent late. TCP flowcontrol takes care of the rest.
Received on Mon Oct 21 2013 - 19:36:36 MDT