Re: second squid box for redundancy and load balancing

From: tom minchin <tom@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 23:48:33 +1100

On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 11:30:11AM +0000, Robin Stevens wrote:
> This is the solution we've adopted to handle the load for enforced caching
> of over 25000 machines, with an Alteon AceDirector distributing the load
> between a pool of UltraSparcs running Solaris.
>
> However, we find that this causes us a few problems. The need for
> persistency on certain websites such as web-based email services (all
> requests in a session must appear to come from the same IP address to avoid
> authentication problems) required us to distribute the load using a hash
> based on destination IP address.

Another option is to NAT all the caches as they head out to the web servers
under a single IP address.
>
> Is this a problem that has been seen by anyone else using a similar set-up?
> We submitted this problem to Alteon's technical support some time ago, but
> have not as yet received a response that has resolved the matter.
>

You actually got responses from Alteon support?

tom@interact.net.au
Received on Thu Dec 23 1999 - 05:58:11 MST

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