Re: [squid-users] having redundancy within squid

See "prefer_direct" and "connect_timeout" directives.

Not exacly what you want, but in the direction. It will only work on a
per request basis.

For exacly what you want with you will need to monitor the ISP and tell
Squid to change configuration when the ISP cannot be used reliably.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid Hacker
Zand, Nooshin wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I want to know how can I implement redundancy within squid.
> When ISP or outer router is done, we change squid.conf to go via another
> direction by utilizing "cache_peer parent proxy-name" parameter.
> Is it any parameter in squid that does the same job, however, it does it
> when URL is not reachable via normal/direct connection.
> By doing this, there is no need to monitor ISP, outer router, and to change
> squid.conf.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nooshin Zand