Re: Proxy question

Leigh Waldie
Wed, 02 Jul 2003 15:16:20 -0000

> Heloooo :-)
> Well this is a good oppinion but, what does it happen when somebody make
> a big request, the proxy will be unshaped thus it will allocate whole
> the line.

Perhaps you need to put the shaping on the same machine as the proxy, this
should allow
you to mark the packets (i think squid can do this) and shape them accordingly?

> A good option is to place another shaper between the proxy and the
> internet.
> To make it simpler to place the proxy in our DMZ, and place another
> shaper for the dmz.
> Thanks for the advice my friend
>  Best regards
>   Stamatis
> Leigh Waldie wrote:
>
>>Why not change your topology so that you have
>>
>>Firewall----------------->Shaper-------------->Proxy------------->Internet
>>
>>This way you have more control over the traffic. Admittedly, you are not
truly shaping
>>the total bandwidth available to you (some of the traffic will be
returning to your
>>clients from the proxy without ever going out to the internet) but maybe
with some
>>tweaking of the traffic shaping you can allow for this ?
>>
>>Leigh
>>
>>