Traffic shaping based on URL?

j0ris · Dec 18, 2009, 4:26 PM

I'd like to limit the download speed (or lower their priority) from servers such as Rapidshare, Megaupload etc.

If the IP(range)s of these servers were known I could use the pfsense traffic shaper, but alas.

I know I could block access to eg. .rapidshare.com altogether by using Squid, but I just want to limit the download speed. It seems Squid also has traffic shaping support, so perhaps I could set up some filters based on URLs (.rapidshare.com, *.megaupload.com, …) in Squid, and then use the built in traffic shaping in Squid?

Could anyone point me in the right direction?

Googling and searching the forum, I couldn't find much on setting up traffic shaping inside Squid in combination with Pfsense.

danswartz · Dec 18, 2009, 4:42 PM

traffic shaping uses IP addresses, unfortunately.

j0ris · Dec 18, 2009, 6:14 PM

@danswartz:

traffic shaping uses IP addresses, unfortunately.

I know, hence my question on how to use Squid for this purpose instead of pfsense built in traffic shaping.

xaviero · Dec 18, 2009, 6:54 PM

simple, since u use squid, find overall bandwidth throttle option, or use per host throttle option. give amount Kbps for the bandwidth leecher…

j0ris · Dec 23, 2009, 12:03 PM

I tried, but gave up on Squid as I couldn't get it to work reliably with large downloads. See http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,21458.0.html

Here's a (quick & dirty) list of Rapidshare networks: http://www.uebi.net/howtos/rapidshare-networks/rs-networks-20090908.txt

I now set up an alias based on this list, and route Rapidshare traffic to qOthersDownL with the built in Pfsense traffic shaper.