Re: Load Balancing over several interfaces

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 19:54:08 +0200

Karl Schaffarczyk wrote:
 
> Is there any way in which squid can be made to use one outgoing
> IP address until the 128k link is saturated, and then use another
> outgoing IP for requests over that saturation point?
>
> Does anyone have any ideas for implementing something like this?

Plenty of ideas. None implemented.

1. Some kind of load balancing NAT device. Can be used in a more general
way moving any kind of traffic to the cheap 128k link until saturated.

2. A deamon that plays with the routing entries based on network load.
If 128k link not saturated then use a default route that causes the
Squid machine to use the appropriate address, and if this is saturated
then change the routing table to use the other address.

3. Similar to 2 but coded in Squid.

4. Probably several other options.

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Henrik Nordström
Spare time Squid hacker
Received on Sun Oct 11 1998 - 14:55:17 MDT

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