Re: [squid-users] Squid with three isp

From: Senthilkumar <senthilkumaar2021_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:56:42 +0530

Thank you very much, with your suggestions we achieved it by adding
necessary route.

Thanks,
Senthil

Amos Jeffries wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:06:18 +0530, Senthilkumar wrote:
>> Thank you.
>>
>> When we use tcp_outgoing address and select isp . The all traffic
>> seems to be going through the default gateway Ethernet of the squid
>> machine and only reply comes through the tcp out going address
>> assigned Ethernet.
>>
>> Eg isp1- eth1(default gateway) isp2-eth2, client- eth0
>> In squid.conf
>> acl isp1 src172.16.1.48
>> acl isp2 src 172.16.1.56 .
>> tcp_outgoing address < ip of isp1 > isp1
>> tcp_outgoing address < ip of isp2 > isp2
>>
>> When we browse from client 172.16.1.56 and tcpdump eth1 we can see
>> connections are established through eth1 which is supposed to be
>> through eth2. But we can see reply comes through the eth2 and also
>> whatismyip.com shows ip of isp2. This shows that default gateway isp1
>> is used for making all requests so that it is overloaded and the isp2
>> is used only for receiving requests.
>
> What Squid is doing is setting the "from"/source IP on the packets.
> There is only one channel between squid and the operating system. It
> is entirely up to the system routing where those packets go. It sounds
> to me like your magic routing setup is not working or not looking at
> the source IP of packets coming out of the Squid machine (OUTPUT
> firewall chain in iptables if that is any help).
>
> Amos
>
>
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