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From: Andrew Beverley <andy@andybev.com>
Subject: Re: High accuracy bandwidth accounting?
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 01:01:13 +0100
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On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 15:30 +0100, Ed W wrote:
> On 09/05/2011 22:45, Andrew Beverley wrote:
> > I wrote a similar patch for Squid (released in V3.2), which allows
> > packets to be marked before Squid, and Squid to reapply the mark on
> > retransmission. Marks can also be applied for locally cached files. If
> > it helps the patch is at:
> > 
> > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~squid/squid/3-trunk/revision/10925
> 
> 
> Did you find any better way to read the packet mark than using
> conntrack?  I see that's how you are doing it in the patch you reference?
> 

No, I think that's the only/best way of doing it (you can't read it from
a socket). That's the advice I got from the netfilter developers anyway,
and it doesn't get much better than that.

Andy