Re: Transparent proxying with delay pools based on IP precedence bit

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 00:21:07 +0100

David Wilson wrote:

> >we could do that in our etbwmgr product for freebsd.
> That would be great ! Especially if it could somehow interface with Squid so
> that any Cache hits would not be bandwidth limited, but TCP_MISS's would be
> pulled down at the bandwidth specified for that particular client, 16K if it
> was and international site or 64K if it was a local site... all based on
> precedence bit.

Please note that due to the way delay pools operates, they are quite
likely more efficient than any packet based bandwidth limiting. Delay
pools operates at the application level, with no TCP overhead due to
extra retransmissions or whatever.

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Henrik Nordstrom
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