Re: Disabling Downloads -- is it possible ?

From: Dancer <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 20:06:52 +1000

"Kunal H. Parikh" wrote:
>
> Hi Friends,
>
> Thanks a million for the tremendous support I've got from this
> list.
>
> One more question:
>
> We are running Squid Version 2.2 STABLE3. We are on a dial-up
> connection and about 8 machines surfing. Now, when 1 person tries
> downloading a file ( a .zip file or .exe file) the remaining users suffer.
>
> So, what I want to do is restrict downloads to each user. They
> must only be able to surf web pages and FTP directories, but not be able
> to download any files.
>
> Kindly help.

An alternative....you can try using the delay_pool stuff, or you can get
more equitable sharing of the dialup link by setting a lower MTU/MRU on
your dialup link and/or setting a small window-size on it.

D
Received on Fri Jul 16 1999 - 04:09:21 MDT

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