Re: multi ethernet cards for a squid cache

From: Dancer <dancer@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 00:53:23 +1000

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.
>
> Any thoughts would be most helpful.

If it's traffic outbound from your box that concerns you, grab the
iproute tool and set up an equal-cost multipath route on all your
ethernet interfaces. Inbound? Can't help you. The same would work the
other way, of course, if you had one-such upstream.

D
Received on Wed Jul 07 1999 - 08:48:58 MDT

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