Re: Traffic Shaping (Squid & Cisco)

On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, Jaeho Yang wrote:

> What's the verion of your linux kernel ?

2.0.30 at the moment.. Although were going to a newer version

> I heard that 2.1.xx has been developed for applying
> *rate shaping & some QoS functions*.

Yes

> Does it become *enough stable* for using them?

Alan (the person who maintains the IP stuff) has made a back port
patch to the 2.0.x kernels..

Which is stable.

> PS)
> Cisco announced CAR(Committed Access Rate) Filter, but
> it needs special IOS versions. (it isn't general feature.)

Whats new for Cisco :)

Anthony

> Anthony Rumble wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Jordan Mendelson wrote:
> >
> > > I'm having trouble with Squid saturating a huge amount of our available
> > > bandwidth when pulling down large objects. I've heard of the delay_hack
> > > feature which would allow me to control bandwidth, but it doesn't appear to
> > > exist in 1.2.b22.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know where to find the patch to add it? Can a Cisco router
> > > traffic shape on a protocol-by-protocol basis (or at least port-by-port)..
> > > and if so does anyone have an example config?
> >
> > We use a linux box as our firewall, and it has Traffic Shaping
> > capabilities which we use to control our users "browsing" during buisness
> > hours.
> >
> > Works like a charm
> >
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> > Anthony Rumble
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