Re: [squid-users] maximum concurrent user limit

1. How do I reset the TTL of an IP?
2. Do you know of any example external ACLs that can be used to limit
number of users? After all, if there is a way to limit number of users,
that is what I'm looking for..

John Doe yazmış:
> From: Ozan UÇAR <mail_at_ozanucar.com>
>
>
>> I have been on the lookout for a solution to limit the number of users allowed
>> to connect to the Internet. What I am looking for is not maxconn. I do not wish
>> to limit the number of total connections per client. A client can have as many
>> connections as s/he wishes. Say, I want to limit Internet access to 20 users. I
>> have been reading the manuals and googling for awhile now, with no luck. Anyone
>> know of a way to achieve this?
>>
>
> Don't you think limiting the bandwidth per user with delay pools would be better
> (more fair)...?
>
> But if you really want to limit the number of users, maybe you could use an
> external acl that will take note of the src IPs (with a given ttl, so no ttl on
> the squid side).
> If at a given time your list of IPs includes more than 20 IPs (different than
> the current one), deny...
> Those IPs will be taken off the list when they reach their ttl.
> You could implement a fifo stream so that when the first IP is taken out, the
> 21th becomes the 20th and is accepted...
> But that means they might receive only half of their webpage if the ttl expire
> in the middle...
> So you could reset the ttl of an IP at each connection...
> But, with this setup, these 20 users could block others access forever if they
> are really active...
> Anyway, I do not think it is a good idea...
>
> JD
Received on Tue Aug 17 2010 - 10:28:50 MDT