Re: [squid-users] need help in configuring delay pools for squid cahe

On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:18:20 -0700 (PDT), arandas <rawanisp_at_yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Dear friends,
> I have configured a squid cache box with one ethernet card that is work
> with
> mikrotik. All traffic from mikrotik destinated to port 80 are routed to
the
> cache box. Everything works fine except for one major problem: squid is
> consuming all the bandwidth because there is no limitations in
downloading
> different types of files (mpg, rmvb, etc..). I need to insert dlay pools
> lines in my squid conf file to limit downloads based on destination ip or
> url or anything else to control squid from consuming all the available
> bandwidth. Any help will be appreciated and once more my cache box has
one
> ethernet card with one IP address that handles all the traffic.. Thanks
in
> advanced

Please be aware the delay pools in Squid only limit the data sent to
clients. They do not prevent Squid from fetching the objects requested at
full speed.

You can find how to use them in the configuration manual
http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config

Amos
Received on Mon Sep 14 2009 - 02:30:44 MDT