Re: Squid vs. Netscape Proxy

On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Joe Abley wrote:
> > ?? - CARP makes all three servers appear as a single server
>
> You could use round-robin DNS to spread client connections over all three
> caches, and run ICP between the caches. For example, if you have cache1,
> cache2 and cache3 numbered as 10.1.1.1, 10.1.2.1 and 10.1.3.1 you could
> use

I think that the first question to ask would be whether the requirement
for three servers and load-balancing is simply to compensate for the
inadequacies of the Windows NT operating system platform -- or whether a
single hefty server running a UNIX-derived operating system could handle
the entire workload of three Windows NT systems.

        -Mike Pelletier.
Received on Mon Apr 20 1998 - 13:29:17 MDT