I'm looking at implementing this as part of a contract for squid-2. I was going to take a different approach - that is, i'm not going to implement quota control or management in squid; I'm going to provide the hooks to squid to allow external controls to handle the "quota".
adrian 2009/2/21 Pieter De Wit <pie...@insync.za.net>: > Hi Guys, > > I would like to offer my time in working on this feature - I have not done > any squid dev, but since I would like to see this feature in Squid, I > thought I would take it on. > > I have briefly contacted Amos off list and we agreed that there is no "set > in stone" way of doing this. I would like to propose that we then start > throwing around some ideas and let's see if we can get this into squid :) > > Some ideas that Amos quickly said : > > - "Based" on delay pools > - Use of external helpers to track traffic > > > The way I see this happening is that a Quota is like a pool that empties > based on 2 classes - bytes and requests. Requests will be for things like > the number of requests, i.e. a person is only allowed to download 5 exe's > per day or 5 requests of >1meg or something like that (it just popped into > my head :) ) > > Bytes is a pretty straight forward one, the user is only allowed x amount of > bytes per y amount of time. > > Anyways - let the ideas fly :) > > Cheers, > > Pieter > >
