Completely agree w/ Paul.  

Put your bosses in the "user" pool and let them swim in the same water as 
everyone else.

----- Original message -----
> Stephen,
>
>    Might I suggest that generally it is not a good idea to give the bosses 
>faster
> access than you give their minions. Do that and before you know it the 
> Internet
> access budget starts getting cut and/or you keep getting forced to carry more
> users with the same or less bandwidth.
>
> Where I am a "boss", I don't ask for this. It tends to distort 
> decision-making.
>
> Find out what's eating the bandwidth. Perhaps block torrents, youtube and such
> during work hours, relay all outgoing mail via your ISP's SMTP server, etc..
> Lots of firewall, Linux config and squid recipes for this out there.
>
> P.
> 
> On May 25, 2010, at 21:31, Kyle Spencer wrote:
>
> > Correction: example assumes 10-15 "bosses."
> >
> > ----- Original message -----
> > > This example assumes a 1Mbps link, 100ish total (not necessarily
> > > network-active) users, and about 5 "bosses."
> > >
> > > It will give servers in the 192.168.0/24 range 256Kbps of bandwidth, 
> > > general
> > > users in 192.168.1/24 512Kbps w/ 3KB/s down max w/ 50KB burst, and bosses 
> > > in
> > > the 192.168.2/24 range 256Kbps total w/ 5KB/s down max w/ 50KB burst.
> > >
> > > Note that squid only manages HTTP traffic, so this won't stop bittorrent
> > > users or traffic of other protocols.  To manage /all traffic/ you may want
> > > to look into systems like Dummynet.
> > >
> > > Anyway, add the following to the bottom of your squid.conf and subnet your
> > > network accordingly (or modify this example according to your existing
> > > topology):
> > >
> > > acl servers src 192.168.0.0/24
> > > acl users src 192.168.1.0/24
> > > acl bosses src 192.168.2.0/24
> > > delay_pools 3
> > > delay_class 1 1
> > > delay_class 2 2
> > > delay_class 3 2
> > > delay_parameters 1 32768/32768
> > > delay_parameters 2 65536/65536 3072/51200
> > > delay_parameters 3 32768/32768 5120/51200
> > > delay_access 1 allow servers
> > > delay_access 2 allow users
> > > delay_access 3 allow bosses
> > >
> > > Reload/restart Squid and you're good to go.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Kyle
> > >
> > > ----- Original message -----
> > > > Hello all, i want to allocate bandwidth to some users(Bosses) so that
> > > > even if the link is slow, they are not affected. I was hoping to use
> > > > squid to do this but i not succeed. I have a red hat box  as my
> > > > gateway.
> > > > Thanks in advance
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Stephen Kabali
> > > > Datacenter Administrator
> > > > Uganda Industrial Research Institute (UIRI)
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