Squid configuration directive qos_flows

Available in: 3.3   3.2   3.1   3.HEAD  

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Changes in 3.2 qos_flows

New options mark and tos and miss

tos retains the original QOS functionality of the IP header TOS field.

mark offers the same functionality, but with a netfilter mark value.

These options should be placed immediately after qos_flows.

The tos value is optional in order to maintain backwards compatability.

The preserve-miss functionality is available with the mark option and requires no kernel patching. It does, however, require libnetfilter_conntrack. This will be included by default if available (see the --without-netfilter-conntrack configure option for more details).

miss sets a value for a cache miss. It is available for both the tos and mark options and takes precedence over the preserve-miss feature.

Changes in 3.1 qos_flows local-hit= sibling-hit= parent-hit=

        Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value to mark outgoing
        connections with, based on where the reply was sourced.

        TOS values really only have local significance - so you should
        know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
        RFC2475, and RFC3260.

        The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - octet value 0x00-0xFF.
        Note that in practice often only multiples of 4 is usable as the
        two rightmost bits have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168
        section 23.1).

        Note that in practice often only values up to 0xFC are usable,
        and only in multiple of 4, as the two rightmost bits have been
        redefined for use by ECN (RFC3168).

        This setting is configured by setting the source TOS values:

        local-hit=0xFF          Value to mark local cache hits.

        sibling-hit=0xFF        Value to mark hits from sibling peers.

        parent-hit=0xFF         Value to mark hits from parent peers.


        NOTE: 'miss' preserve feature is only possible on Linux at this time.

        For the following to work correctly, you will need to patch your
        linux kernel with the TOS preserving ZPH patch.
        The kernel patch can be downloaded from http://zph.bratcheda.org

        disable-preserve-miss
                If set, any HTTP response towards clients will
                have the TOS value of the response comming from the
                remote server masked with the value of miss-mask.
        miss-mask=0xFF
                Allows you to mask certain bits in the TOS received from the
                remote server, before copying the value to the TOS sent
                towards clients.
                Default: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).

Configuration Details:

Option Name:qos_flows
Replaces:
Requires:--enable-zph-qos
Default Value:none
Suggested Config: 


	Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value to mark outgoing
	connections with, based on where the reply was sourced.	For
	platforms using netfilter, allows you to set a netfilter mark
	value instead of, or in addition to, a TOS value.

	TOS values really only have local significance - so you should
	know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
	RFC2475, and RFC3260.

	The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value  0 - 255. Note that
	in practice often only multiples of 4 is usable as the two rightmost bits
	have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).

	Mark values can be any unsigned 32-bit integer value.

	This setting is configured by setting the following values:

	tos|mark                Whether to set TOS or netfilter mark values

	local-hit=0xFF		Value to mark local cache hits.

	sibling-hit=0xFF	Value to mark hits from sibling peers.

	parent-hit=0xFF		Value to mark hits from parent peers.

	miss=0xFF[/mask]	Value to mark cache misses. Takes precedence
				over the preserve-miss feature (see below), unless
				mask is specified, in which case only the bits
				specified in the mask are written.

	The TOS variant of the following features are only possible on Linux
	and require your kernel to be patched with the TOS preserving ZPH
	patch, available from http://zph.bratcheda.org
	No patch is needed to preserve the netfilter mark, which will work
	with all variants of netfilter.

	disable-preserve-miss
		This option disables the preservation of the TOS or netfilter
		mark. By default, the existing TOS or netfilter mark value of
		the response coming from the remote server will be retained
		and masked with miss-mark.
		NOTE: in the case of a netfilter mark, the mark must be set on
		the connection (using the CONNMARK target) not on the packet
		(MARK target).

	miss-mask=0xFF
		Allows you to mask certain bits in the TOS or mark value
		received from the remote server, before copying the value to
		the TOS sent towards clients.
		Default for tos: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
		Default for mark: 0xFFFFFFFF (mark from server is not changed).

	All of these features require the --enable-zph-qos compilation flag
	(enabled by default). Netfilter marking also requires the
	libnetfilter_conntrack libraries (--with-netfilter-conntrack) and
	libcap 2.09+ (--with-libcap).
 

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