Re[4]: [squid-users] About multiple ISP

From: Dzintars Irbe <dzintars.irbe@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 09:48:34 +0300

HN> On Monday 20 May 2002 14:10, Dzintars Irbe wrote:
>> Does that mean that if I specify tcp_outgoing_address = [ISP givven
>> IP for box] that SQUID will make all the cashing through this
>> IP?

HN> Yes.

>> Why routing?

HN> The fact that you tell Squid to use a specific IP does not make your
HN> Squid host route this traffic via the ISP where this IP belongs. Any
HN> host that is multihomed with more than one Internet connections must
HN> be carefully setup to route the correct traffic to the correct ISP.

>> If I have box with 2 IP - one from each ISP:
>> ISP1 gives ip "x", ISP2 gives IP "y". I need SQUID to work through
>> "y". So I specify tcp_outgoing_address to be "y", and SQUID
>> works through this link, not through other? Or I misunderstund that
>> thing?

HN> Squid has no control of how your Squid server host will route the
HN> traffic. If can only control which of the IP addresses available on
HN> the host will be used.

HN> Which ISP the traffic actually gets sent to is a routing problem.

HN> Note: Quite likely your whole problem can be solved most easily by
HN> correct routing, with no need to tell Squid anything about
HN> tcp_outgoing_address.

HN> Regards
HN> Henrik Nordström

I need that all services(mail, www...) uses one ISP, but SQUID
other... I think that this can't be done by routing... Am I wrong?

Dzintars.
Received on Tue May 21 2002 - 00:48:13 MDT

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