Re: Same Proxy, two different networks

Hi,

[Sorry, but I won't remove the BASE64 mangling. Please don't post in
multipart/mixed MIME..]

> We have just succesfully configured and brought up a Squid Proxy Server =
> at our University site. Now we want to expand it a little bit and are =
> experiencing some difficulties:
> =20
> We have Internet connections to two different networks. One is only for =
> the Universities in the state of Rio Grande do Sul (Brasil) where we =
> have Squid running today and the other is the Embratel (Brazillian) =
> Network.=20
> =20
> Our internal users are routed to the Universities network and the =
> external go to Embratel.
> =20
> Today Squid caches for the first one(Universities). We would like to =
> have a single cache for both Internet networks. So we added another NIC =
> and started playing with squid.conf and the routing tables.
> =20
> The way we think would be best is to have all users browsers configured =
> to use the same proxy, and then route requests to the two different =
> networks deppending on the user's IP. It means an internal user will get =
> to the proxy, and if the page requestes is not cached the request will =
> be directed to the Universities network. Likewise, an external user will =
> have its browser configured to use the same proxy, but its requests will =
> be routed to the Embratel network.
> =20
We will be in a similar situation soon. I don't know of any patches to
squid doing this. You can get the effect with two instances of squid
(running on the same machine) configured as siblings, I think.
It would probably be more efficent to enhance squid in this respect
though. Maybe I'll do that - but not in the next couple of weeks.
 

Lutz

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