Re: [squid-users] Need some advice :)

That's an interesting question :)

The simple way to do it is to put the bandwidth manager
between the users and the proxy server, and to tell the
manager to treat the proxy's address (or address, port
couple) as an external service (if there's need for
this at all).

But not always there's always external service, and
if the user asks for internal service through the
proxy, she'll get taxed incorrectly.

It seems the best solution is to use transparent
proxying and never allow direct access to the
proxy server. But this involves ip forwarding
and there are always problems and drawbacks...

Oh, I forgot. There are some bandwidth managers
which can look into the http query and get the
final destination from there. But they're not
cheap stuff. The usual traffic shapers on
linux/bsd boxes can't do that, no?