On Mon, 9 May 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The solution that would solve the impasse: to use SQUID in accelerator
mode and SQUID to pass thru the packages with TOS unchanged (if it is
0x88 before SQUID so it would be 0x88 after it and viceversa for 0x00).
Why accelerator mode? Normal proxy mode is what you want I think.
I know that the Squid is an open-source application and I've tried to
look at the sources, but my age doesn't permit me to take it from the
begining and learn programming language, as I'm not a programmer, in
order to discern the great stupendous application.
It is somewhat more tricky than it may seem. The TCP/IP kernel does not
give Squid access to what the TOS/DS value of the return traffic was. At
least not on Linux which I am most familiar with.
Setting the TOS/DS value is almost trivial. This is already supported on
the outgoing connections Squid make via the outgoing_tos directive, and
having a similar function to set the TOS/DS on return traffic to clients
would not be very hard. The problem for your case is to know what TOS/DS
to set..
I am absolutely convinced that your time is practically inexistent but I
must tell you that this feature of SQUID would solve problems of
thousands users here and crossborder as the provider is multinational
company.
A feature like "pass_headers on" in conjunction with accelerator mode
settings :) would be heaven !
Squid operates at the application level, not packet level. There is no
concept of "headers" at the application level, only TCP/IP connections and
the streams of data within them.
Regards
Henrik
