[Sheflug] Traffic Shaping and Bandwidth Limiting with SQUID

[Alan Dawson <aland [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Users are hosting mp3's avi's etc on on a web server with a limited bandwidth.  
This in itself is not a problem, but when the bandwidth consumed by the  
download sessions / and the time it takes for the large(ish) files being  
downloaded affects the interactivity of other ip applications like webmail and  
ssh sessions.  
  
I was hoping that I could  
1.  use squid to accelerate the web server   
2.  use the delay pools feature of squid to limit bandwidth based on file  
extension (.mp3, .avi) or file size( >100kb)  a proportion of the available  
bandwidth (say 64kb/s)   
  
as mentioned in the http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bandwidth-Limiting-HOWTO/  
  
Firstly   
 Is this a viable solution , and secondly what are the pitfalls?  
  
Any answers?  
  
AED  
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