Re: Peer twiddling

I like the sound of that a lot...standard tools for network systems
administration.

However, security is still a concern, and SNMP is currently not so
secure in Squid (ACLs true, but no granularity for SNMP access).

Andres Kroonmaa wrote:

> SNMP-write is the word in ISP world.
>
> snmpset squid-box peer.peername.peerport=enable
>
> On 13 Sep 2001, at 1:01, Adrian Chadd <adrian@squid-cache.org> wrote:
>
>
>>Hi guys,
>>
>>I've had some requests by ISPs to enable a method of twiddling the
>>peer configuration without restarting squid. This is so an external
>>program can change various bits of the peer's configuration.
>>
>>The current quick modification simply enables/disables a given
>>peer via an internal URL (/squid-internal-peer/peername:peerport/enable
>>or .../disable), but later on down the track a few other things
>>might be twiddled (eg peer weights, default parent status.)
>>
>>I've thrown it into the 'peertwiddle' branch on sourceforge.
>>The patch is pretty simple in itself, but I'm curious to know if
>>anyone can suggest a better way of implementing it.
>>
>>I'd like for this to eventually find its way into squid-HEAD
>>and squid-2.4.
>>
>>(The diff URL is http://squid.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/diff/peertwiddle)
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>>Adrian

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Received on Thu Sep 13 2001 - 14:59:44 MDT