Re: multi ethernet cards for a squid cache

From: Marc van Selm <marc.van.selm@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 12:06:10 +0200

At 09:18 AM 7/6/99 -0400, Rob Harris wrote:

>Greetings all--
>
>Has anyone figured out how to make squid use more than one ethernet card
>to retrieve objects into it's cache?
>
>I have a unix box (linux rh6) running squid (latest) with a multiport
>ethernet card (10mb) behind a switch and a router tied to a T3. I would
>like squid to round robin/load balance the traffic amongst the 4 ports on
>the multiethernet card if possible as I have an obscene amount of traffic
>that I pass through this box.

I'd say a dedicated 100Mbps full duplex switch port will suit you better.

>Any thoughts would be most helpful.
>
>--Rob
>____________________________________________________________________________
>Rob Harris 9885 North Washington Blvd. ph: 301.598.0500
>SkyCache, Inc. Laurel, MD 20723 x2236
>rharris@skycache.com "My opinions are my own." fax: 301.598.0837
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