Re: [squid-users] Delay pools (throttling) for specified websites?

D & E Radel wrote:
> squid3@treenet.co.nz wrote:
>>> No takers? Thanks in advance. :-)
>>> D.Radel.
>>>
>>>
>>> D & E Radel wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I am currently using a delay pool to throttle users a certain
>>>> ldap_group
>>>> to a slow speed.
>>>>
>>>> I wish to throttle access to certain bandwidth heavy websites. I added
>>>> the ACL "slow_sites" to my existing delay pool as follows:
>>>>
>>>> acl slow_sites url_regex -i "/squid_stuff/slow_sites.txt"
>>>>
>>>> # Delay pools
>>>> #-------------------------------------------------
>>>> delay_pools 1
>>>> delay_class 1 3
>>>> delay_access 1 allow slow_group slow_sites
>>>> delay_access 1 deny all
>>>> delay_parameters 1 250000/250000 -1/-1 8000/250000
>>>>
>>>> It didn't slow down access to the sites listed in the textfile.
>>>> Whereas,
>>>> the delay pool was already working correctly on the users in slow_group
>>>> before my adjustments.
>>>>
>>>> Any help greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance.
>>>> D.Radel.
>>>>
>>
>> I read that config as meaning only slow slow_group when accessing
>> slow_sites.
>>
>> Seems to me you want a config like:
>>
>> delay_access 1 allow slow_group
>> delay_access 1 allow slow_sites
>>
>> Which would slow BOTH lists independent of each other.
>>
>> Amos
>
> Ah brilliant! Thanks Amos! I will give that a whirl!:-)
>
> regards,
> Dietrich

Tried it. It works. So basically delay pools can throttle traffic for specific users and specific
websites, not just IP address ranges. Brilliant! This info really needs to be in the delay pool
docs. Many thanks! :-)

best regards,
Dietrich
Received on Sun Jun 24 2007 - 15:18:54 MDT