Re: [LARTC] Squid + Htb + Nat, problem.

[Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>]

ToS marking of outgoing packets is included in Squid versions from 
2.5STABLE1 onward.  Just enable it when you run configure.

Angelripper wrote:

> I'm trying to shape a connection behind a NAT. I have done it already
> using tc with htb. Now the problems is that I want to run Squid on the
> same
> machine, and also control de bandwidth but with htb so it can change
> the bandwidth in real time. For the non-squid version of this, I'm using
> iptables-mangle to mark packets and tc for the traffic control.
>
> As squid is only for HTTP transactions, I decided to send through it
> only the web traffic(excludind FTP and SSL), and limit the downstream with
> HTB as in the non-squid version. But the
> upstream is always uncontrolled since one only can control the packets
> going out of the server and the uploading proccess seem to come from the
> NAT-server since is there where squid is installed and squid doesn't make
> any NAT at all. Is there a way to mark the packets squid sends
> out so tc can control them also? Exists there another solution? Is the
> web-cache server a bad solution into the QoS rage?
>
> If something sounds stupid I apologize, since I'm a newbie.
>
>
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Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
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