Re: Squid patch

Looks good. Maybe add a report on bugs.gentoo.org?

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:38:44 +0200, Iosif Peterfi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, i would like to see included in the next squid release the zsh patch
> from: http://www.it-academy.bg/zph/.
> 
> Purpose
> The idea behind this patch is to allow classification of packets generated
> from the squid cache engine towards clients. The classification is based on
> whether the content is being served from cache (a cache HIT), or is being
> retrieved from a remote server (a cache MISS).
> Background
> I made this patch to deal with a problem of the current QoS design I have
> implemented. I'm using a single Linux box to act as Firewall/NAT/Transparent
> HTTP cache for a small network of computers. The box also imposes the QoS
> policies for the communications to/from Internet. The QoS is based on
> HTB+SFQ queuing disciplines. Statistics gathered from the squid cache
> (through SNMP) clearly show an average monthly HIT rate of about 25%.
> Unfortunately, unless using the delay pools feature of SQUID, there is no
> way to limit only those requests served from remote servers. The Delay pools
> are a nice feature of SQUID, but cannot work efficiently due to the lack of
> communication with the QoS policies beneath. What I needed was a way to
> classify packets and set no penalty in bandwidth and delay, when the
> information is served from SQUID's cache.
> 
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