RE: Limiting Bandwidth

Have you set up ACL's so only your users can access your squid.
Otherwise you might have outsiders abusing your bandwidth.

Ive seen people do this, I can only assume they want to anonymise their
web browsing or something similar.
Of course, its more of a problem here in Australia where ISP's tend to
pay for bandwidth by the meg.
If you make this mistake, it can cost you a lot of money.

You should have a careful look in access.log and see what IP's requests
are coming from.

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Ben Mckellar wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My squid proxy box has been up for 35 days, i looked at my router and
> noticed a rather high percent bandwidth stream. There was little activiy on
> the network. This puzzled me for a few days.
>
> I rebooted the squid proxy server and noticed when the mahcine was down, my
> bandwidth usage suddenyl decreased quite a large amount.. from like 60%
> 80% 90%.. then it went down to 9% 20% 40%.. which is about normal.
>
> What i cant figure out is why was my squid box using so much bandwidth? And
> now i have rebooted it, it seems to be working without any problems and the
> bandwidth is back to normal. I am waiting to see if it goes up again.
>
> This issue doesnt have anything to do with my users and usage.. cause its
> rather a small user amount..
>
>
> hmm
>
>
> This prompted me to ask the question.. Is there a way to throttle the speed
> somehow and tell squid to only use a specfied amount of my bandwidth to
> avoid this problem...??
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Thanx in Advance..
>
>
> Ben Mckellar
>
>

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