Re: [squid-users] round robin question

From: Dave Dykstra <dwd_at_fnal.gov>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:53:15 -0500

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 08:51:00AM -0400, jeff donovan wrote:
>
> On Sep 24, 2008, at 11:38 AM, Kinkie wrote:
>
> >On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:16 PM, jeff donovan
> ><donovan_at_beth.k12.pa.us> wrote:
> >>greetings
> >>
> >>How could I go about load balancing two or more transparent proxy
> >>squid servers ?
> >>No caching invloved. This is strictly for access.
> >>
> >>i thought about dns round robin, but that didn't make sense since i
> >>am forwarding all connections to a single interface.
> >>
> >>any insight would be helpful
> >
> >
> >So both instances are running on the same (bridging?) system?
> >Can you give some more details?
>
> I have 12 subnets coming off router 1 and 12 coming off router 2 each
> pass through a transparent squid.
>
> I want to for better or worse " Mux " these two and add a 3rd box.
>
> combine the 24 subnets ---> ( 3 squids ) --->

What is the reason for combining them? What do you mean by a single
"interface"? What data rates are you talking about at each point?

I've seen squid load balancing done 3 ways: round-robin dns, a "blade"
in a Cisco switch, and on 2 systems running LinuxVirtualServer in
combination with linux-ha.

- Dave
Received on Thu Sep 25 2008 - 17:03:42 MDT

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