SUMMARY:Blocking multiple browser requests from same IP

Thanks to the following friends for their sincere support:

Frank Smith <fsmith@hoovers.com>    =

Scott McCool <smmccool@aethersystems.com>    =

McGee, Chris <CMMcGee@pella.com>    =

Koos van den Hout <koos@cs.uu.nl>    =

blymn@baesystems.com.au (Brett Lymn)    =

Justin Stringfellow <Justin.Stringfellow@Sun.COM

The various solutions suggested are:

1) To use squid to conserve bandwidth by caching efficiently http request=
s
(which I am already doing but still during peak hours we face congestion)=
=2E

2)Recompile squid with delay_pools enabled and configure those to limit t=
he
total webbrowsing bandwidth and/or the bandwidth per IP.

3) Limit the number of client connections using squid. Check the squid fa=
q:

http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-10.html#ss10.22

I have read the squid faq and am quite hopeful that it will serve the pur=
pose.


But here is another scenario, in the second lab, I am using a cache appli=
ance
(NetCache) and not squid. So what to do if squid can not be used. Is ther=
e any
other software available for this purpose which will work with a cache
appliance?


Best Regards,

John Black