Re: [squid-users] Load-balancing traffic via more network devices

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:23:18 +0100

On Tuesday 15 January 2002 15.06, Robert Trebula wrote:

> The other way is to assign requests to ACL by their source address,
> but this isn't the thing it should be, you know...

Actually I think this may be what you want.. quite many web sites
gets disturbed if the user randomly switches IP address in the middle
of a session.

But sure, the link load balancing capabilities of Squid is somewhat
limited. You can make a round-robin distribution by running three
Squids, one main doing all the caching, and two non-caching parents
(no_cache deny all, cache_dir null), one per link.

Generally, link load balancing is better implemented outside Squid.
For example by using a rotating default route, combined with policy
routing to route traffic with assigned IP to the correct link..

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