Bandwidth and load sharing

From: Troy Settle <st@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 13:23:39 -0400

Hey all,

We're in the process of evaluating Squid as a transparent proxy server, and
all looks good so far. But, there's one major problem we'll be facing.

Currently, we're padding some of our BGP route announcements to balance out
our incoming bandwidth. About 1/2 of our dialup ports are padded, and the
other half are not.

If I bind 2 IP addresses to the ethernet interface on our squid box, can
Squid be configured to balance it's usage between those 2 addresses? If
not, can anyone offer any suggestions for balancing out our bandwidht usage
once we deploy Squid?

One thought that comes to mind is to have 2 caches, one on each subnet,
configured as siblings. The only disadvantage to this, is that it would
double our hardware costs.

How are other ISPs with 4k users and 2 T1s handling this situation?

TIA,

Troy Settle
iPlus Internet Services
Received on Thu Sep 30 1999 - 11:51:21 MDT

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