Re: [squid-users] load balancing traffic through squid on systems with 2 Internet connections

From: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:46:10 +0100

On ons, 2007-11-21 at 13:50 +0900, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2007, Ming-Ching Tiew wrote:
>
> > As far as I know, you could do "split access" using
> > the 'tcp_outgoing_address' method, but you can't
> > get squid to use it in round-robin manner.
> >
> > I might be wrong. :-)
>
> I don't think there is, but making squid do that with a small source patch
> wouldn't be difficult.

But not something I would recommend. Many sites dislikes clients coming
from more than one IP during the same session. The client IP is often
embedded in session cookies etc, making the session fail if the IP
changes.

Regards
Henrik

Received on Wed Nov 21 2007 - 13:46:16 MST

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