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

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
Received on Wed Jun 20 2007 - 03:10:35 MDT