From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Amos Jeffries Subject: Re: Marking particular programs Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:35:47 +1300 Message-ID: <490BEAB3.1010406@treenet.co.nz> References: <490A45BF.5060800@amfes.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <490A45BF.5060800@amfes.com> Sender: netfilter-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: dmiller@amfes.com Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org Daniel L. Miller wrote: > Is it possible to "mark" packets from particular programs running on the > routing server? Such as Squid or Apt? > > Without this, I have no way (that I know of) of identifying the nature > of the HTTP traffic so I can limit it accordingly. Squid marks its own traffic for QoS as needed. Recent versions go as far as to set it based on originating source for better external/internal flow handling. apt can be configured to use Squid or system proxy settings for more efficient bandwidth usage. Amos Jeffries Squid Developer