hi friends, previously i asked same question, but i didnt get sufficient information.. so im explaining my requirement clearly.. pls anybody help me in solving this.. i have 128 kbps net connection , in my office now i want share this connection and using redhat linux i want to restrict bandwidth per user or system (5 k) how can i do that . as i know some idea about squid pools but not exactly.. my aim is 1.i want to assign 5k per ip (may windows or linux box) 2.in any time user must not access more than 5k bandwidth 3.*(required but not must) my clients don't like chnage anything on their browsers and chats (like port nos.etc) my sys details: redhat 8.0 , p-2 , 256 mb ram, ide hd pls help me to solve this problem.. regards kishore

Providing that you have a version of squid compiled with "--enable-delay-pools", you'll want to add some lines to squid.conf similar to: delay_pools 1 delay_class 1 1 delay_parameters 1 625/8000 acl All src 0/0 delay_access 1 allow All (NB The "625/8000" part is BYTES per second and not BITS, so 625B/s x 8 = 5000bit/s = 5Kbit/s) What the above does is wait until the total bandwidth being used is 8000B/s (64Kbit/s) and it then limits it down to 5Kbit/s per IP in the range 0.0.0.0/0 All the users need to have set locally is the IP of the squid machine set as their proxy, if you have windoze clients you can do this via group policy.

hi 3dave sorry for my late delay. i went on vacation. thnk u very much for ur knd reply.. can u give the solution for trasparent squid also, instead of configure all the browsers . i tried different configurations but i didnt get transparent squid.. pls help me... regards kishore

You could make your quid proxy the gateway for the network. Some links for you: http://squid-docs.sourceforge.net/latest/book-full.html http://squid.visolve.com/squid/sqguide.htm