[squid-users] Peer selection based on IP with multiple ports?

[Amos Jeffries]

On 17/01/21 1:52 am, roee klinger wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I am using Squid to route users to different peers based on their 
> usernames, I was asked to add support for IP whitelisting recently but I 
> ran into an issue.
> 
> If one IP wants to access to different peers, I will have to do it based 
> on on the listening port number, as there is no other way to 
> differentiate the traffic, however, Squid is limited to 128 listening 
> ports, which means I will have to use a max of 128 peers.
> 

What about using the ext_SQL_session_acl helper?

You would have a URL/page that these clients visit to select which peer 
they are going to use. That updates the database to start/change their 
session with username that allows access to the relevant peer.


Amos