RE: [squid-users] load balancing two squid boxes howto?

Hi,

You have many solutions! It depends on your budget of course...
1- The cheapest and best (I highly recommend this way)
Prepare a third machine with Squid
Configure Squid to load balance requests to two parents
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cache_peer 10.10.10.10 parent 8080 7 proxy-only no-query round-robin
cache_peer 10.10.10.11 parent 8080 7 proxy-only no-query round-robin
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Disable any object caching
Configure the peers as neighbors so the same objects will not be cached
on two servers.
This way has many advantages since it will load balance requests and
offer automatic fail-over.
2- You can use "balance", a utility that comes as a port with the
distribution
3- You can use a hardware device like Cisco CS1100 or Alteon Ace
Director series
...

Regards,

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-----Original Message-----
From: richard.fuser@ernstyoung.com.au
[mailto:richard.fuser@ernstyoung.com.au]
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 9:14 AM
To: jay omayan
Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: [squid-users] load balancing two squid boxes howto?

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Hi There,

We use a very simple method of load balancing and not to mention very
cheap!!

We have 4 dns entries for 2 servers:

proxy: 10.0.0.1, 10.0.0.2 (2 entries with different IP's)
proxy1: 10.0.0.1
proxy2: 10.0.0.2

When we hand out the proxy server hostname to the browser via a
proxy.pac
we hand out the hostname "proxy" when the dns lookup is done it will get
a
response as shown below.

> proxy
Server: dns.server.com
Address: 10.0.0.22

Name: proxy.server.com
Addresses: 10.0.0.2, 10.0.0.1

This will be alternate so the next time around you will get 10.0.0.1 as
the
first address, which means this splits up the requests between the 2
servers.

We also pass multiple addresses to the browser with the .pac in case...

Please this is a very simple load balancing idea and does not offer
really
anything apart from roughly splitting the requests for the 2 proxys, in
our
case this works great.

Hope this helps / makes sense....

Regards,
Richard Fuser
Firewall & UNIX Systems Administrator

                    jay omayan

                    <xjhay@yahoo. To:
squid-users@squid-cache.org

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                                         Subject: [squid-users] load
balancing two squid boxes howto?
                    03/06/2002

                    03:37 PM

greetings!

squid is very succesfull in terms of faster internet
and bandwidth savings to us...since our network is
gettings bigger i need to have two squid boxes...
my problem is how do i loadbalance two squid boxes?

any help would be appreciated...

thanks

Jay Omayan
IT Officer
scoobysNET/Bohol-Online/iCyberscape
Philippines

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