David Wilson wrote:
> So from what you are saying it's almost impossible for me to build ACL's
> that can discriminate between the value's of the DS/precedence bit field ?
Not impossible, but first the OS needs to be extended so there is a way
that Squid may get access to the information.
> I wonder if looking at the source of "tc" (Linux shaper) would shed some
> light on how to implement the same feature into Squid ?
Probably not. The traffic shaper runs in the kernel, and is packet
based, so it does have access to the per packet DS information quite
naturally.
> I also wonder how guys that produce hardware caches manage to get it right,
> like Netcache, Allot etc etc. ?
Well.. they have control over the OS as well as the cache application.
> Anyone got a "Learn c in 1 week" book for me, sheez I wish I knew how this
> stuff worked so I could strip it to pieces and at least make an attempt at
> building the feature in ? :)
The coding required in Squid is quite small, once there is a mechanism
that Squid may use to get the DS information from the kernel on TCP
traffic..
Regards
Henrik
Received on Fri Nov 23 2001 - 01:22:24 MST
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