---- > > I am fairly sure Squid has the concept of bandwidth pools which you can > apply via ACLs within the squid conf. > That may meet your proxy requirements but would not help with traffic > not being proxied. > > Squid will also allow you to define access to the inet based on ACLs > which can use various things to determine which policy will be applied > to the connection. eg, client src IP, client username, time of day, > regx... > > you may find it here: > > http://www.squid-cache.org/ > ---
Squid plus bandwidth management (ala dummynet or similar) could go a long way to addressing all of those functions. Deepak Jain AiNET