Re: A proposal.

My take:

Should be ACL driven.

To be ACL driven an ACL which matches hit/miss/near_hit etc needs to be
added.

i.e. similar to tcp_outgoing_tos, but with the addition of a new acl
type which can match if it is a hit/miss.

Regards
Henrik

tor 2003-03-27 klockan 12.08 skrev Daniel Draper:

> I'm interested to know peoples opinions. In regards to HIT/MISS packet
> marking I figure it might be a good idea to make it an option in the
> squid.conf file. Perhaps under the miscellaneous section and defined
> something like:
>
> mark_client_packets <miss_mark> <hit_mark>
>
> miss_mark is the number between 0 and 16 that the packet is marked with
> in the event of a cache miss and hit_mark is that of a cache hit.
>
> If the directive is not present in the config file then packets are not
> marked. I can't think of any reasons straight away but perhaps some
> people might not want packet marking on their cache. Maybe QoS
> algorithms?
>
> Also, the ToS marks may need to be even valued only I think because of
> the organization of the bits in the IP-Header. Can anyone clarify this?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Daniel

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Henrik Nordstrom <hno@squid-cache.org>
MARA Systems AB, Sweden