Re: [squid-users] room for improvement in my proxy architecture

From: Gaylord Van Brocklin <vanbrockling@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:08:17 -0700

And one last question on the NAT'ing subject..

I need to provide full redundancy with automatic failover on all
devices (which would now include this NAT device between the Proxies
and Internet).

A couple of routers with a VIP and HSRP? Or is there an easy solution
using Open/FreeBSD or Linux?

-gvb

On Oct 27, 2004, at 12:13 PM, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Gaylord Van Brocklin wrote:
>
>> The Squid -> AV server will be bypassing the firewall, but I guess I
>> could throw another NAT box outside the AV servers.
>>
>> Is this a common solution to this problem?
>
> I seen it done at many places requiring more than one proxy, for the
> exact reasons you describe.
>
> Other sites uses a proxy.pac file with a list of known troublesome
> sites and redirecting these to a specific proxy solving the problem
> that way.
>
> Others use a load balancing scheme where the same user will always use
> the same proxy (unless unavailable).
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
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