Re: [squid-users] Randomly assign OUTGOING ip in SQUID PROXY

Michelle Dawson wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I've been reading the mail archive on this subject but the issue
> hasn't been resolved so far so I would like to ask again if something
> has change or some one figured it out.
>
> Is it possible to assign an random round-robin outgoing_tcp_ip in the
> config file for every connection attempt in SQUID?
>
> We are currently trying to set something like this:
>
> tcp_outgoing_address 100.200.300.400
> tcp_outgoing_address 100.200.300.401
> tcp_outgoing_address 100.200.300.402
> tcp_outgoing_address 100.200.300.403
> tcp_outgoing_address 100.200.300.404
> tcp_outgoing_address 100.200.300.405
> tcp_outgoing_address 100.200.300.405

> balance_on_multiple_ip on

balance_* refers to the multiple destination IPs presented in DNS for a
remote website.
ie www.l.google.com has multiple IPs.

>
> * IPs are made up for security reasons
>
> But its not working, because its always selecting the first one from
> the list, probably because its working fine and thus ignoring
> everything else. I understand that we can use ACL's to assign when the
> IP's are going to be used such as in the morning / evening, by
> specific users, by specific incoming IPs etc. but we really like to
> assign the outgoing IP address randomly without linking it to specific
> users or ip addresses.
>
> How could we achieve this?

Try the "random" ACL type available in Squid-3.2 beta.
http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/AclRandom

First beta release of 3.2 will be coming out in the next day or so.

Amos

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