[squid-users] Re: squid deployment

Damn, I shouldn't have pressed the send button yet .... Anyway, I
found a similar scenario, at least for small environments, at
http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/Webwasher

But I don't see any chance to support multiple icap servers. Is there
a solution for this problem (I don't want to use the loadbalancer for
balancing my icap servers), I don't want to build this solution if I
can prevent it somehow:

 Clients
     |
     |
     v
 Loadbalancer
     |
     |
     v
 Squid-Proxies ---> Loadbalancer ---> ICAP-Server
     | ^ ICAP-Server
     | | ^
     | -------------------------------------------------------|
     |
     |
     v
 INTERNET

I would appreciate any input,

thanks, best regards

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:18 PM, guest01 <guest01_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> We want to replace our current proxy solution (crappy commercial
> product which is way too expensive) and thought about Squid, which is
> a great product.I already found a couple of example configurations,
> basically for reverse proxying. What we are looking for is a caching
> and authentication (LDAP and NTLM) only solution with content
> filtering via ICAP. We have following configuration in mind (firewalls
> omitted):
>
> Clients
>     |
>     |
>     v
> Loadbalancer
>     |
>     |
>     v
> Squid-Proxies  <---->   ICAP-Server
>     |
>     |
>     v
> INTERNET
>
> We are expecting approx. 4500 requests per second average (top 6000
> RPS) and 150Mbit/s, so I suppose we need a couple of Squids. The
> preferable solution would be big servers with a lot of memory and
> Squid 3.0 on a 64Bit RHEL5.
> Does anybody know any similar scenarios? Any suggestions? What are
> your experiences?
>
> The ICAP Servers are commercial ones (at least at the beginning), but
> I have following problem. I want to use multiple ICAP Servers in each
> Squid configuration with loadbalancing, unfortunately it is not
> supported and does not work in Squid 3.
>
> best regards
>
Received on Mon Mar 29 2010 - 13:39:56 MDT