Re: [LARTC] squid + tc

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Martin Devera wrote:
>>On Wednesday 22 May 2002 10:43, you wrote:
>>
>>>I've seen patch to squid somewhere. The trick is to encode original
>>>requester information into new request packets. It can go into
>>>"priority" field - it is 32bit and is userspace-settable.

In Squid 2.5 you have the possibility to set TOS field with acls.
This also works by calling setsockopt on the socket, changing it to 
SO_PRIORITY should take very little time ..

>>
>>That sounds exactly like the solution I've been looking for for about 3
>>months!
>>
>>Devik, could you possibly find out or give me a hint, where you've seen this
>>patch? I am really interested in such a thing and I would be very grateful
>>for everything someone knows about it.
> 
> 
> I think you should start search at squid page .. but I really
> can't remember :(
 >
>>>I'm currently thinking about doing something like it but have no
>>>time ...
>>
>>Unfortunataly I currently do not have the time to build it for myself as
>>well. (I'm also sure that Devik would be way faster ;)
>
> If someone is willing to spend $1000 I'll write it ;-)

I'll do it for a couple sixpacks of Ganther Bier (which releases 
enormous coding powers) ;)
If no one volunteers, maybe i'll also do it for free ...

Bye
Patrick

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