Hi, I am one of the network admins of a campus of large community who tries to make sure that the academic community is kept happy in spite of a congested access link. My professor keeps asking me why can't you give higher bandwidth for web access to educational, and any academic related sites. I wonder if I can do so using Linux box placed in between the access link and the campus LAN.
The squid delay pools option has been tried but it doesn't serve the purpose because squid doesn't have intimate knowledge of the bandwidth availability of the access link, which is dynamic. As a starting point, I would like to define classification rules such that web access to *.edu OR *.net OR *.org can be put under one bandwidth chunk. Public mail sites such as *.yahoo.com OR gmail.com OR *hotmail.com under a different chunk. The rest goes to default chunk, and so on. If any one category is not using its bandwidth share, others should be able to borrow the bandwidth. Of course smtp and other kinds of traffic will be given their quota. Can I do the above kind of classification, and subsequently bandwidth allocation based on text based wildcard with logical operators such as above using any of the existing options available under Linux ? Am I asking for a moon ? :) Thanks for your patience. Anand - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
