Re: [squid-users] Re: Problem with squid tcp_outgoing_address

From: k simon <chio1990_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 14:05:14 +0800

The second question:
   request_header_access and tcp_outgoing_address, who will be issued
first ?
   For example, I want use tcp_outgoing_address based on a request
header , then delete the header before it really sent out?

Simon

于 14-3-11 12:12, k simon 写道:
> Hi,Amos,
> As tcp_outgoing_address support fast group ACL, can I use ACL base on
> some header?
>
> Regards
> Simon
>
>
>
> 于 14-3-10 19:20, Amos Jeffries 写道:
>> On 10/03/2014 8:56 p.m., babajaga wrote:
>>> As I have a similar problem, just using this thread:
>>> How to use tcp_outgoing_address for load balancing (round robin) ?
>>>
>>> My idea was to write an ACL-helper doing the round-robin, which would be
>>> very easy; but how to detect a failed WAN-connection within
>>> ACL-helper ?)
>>>
>>>
>>> (One local interface, 3 WAN-interfaces to different ISPs, for
>>> redundancy and
>>> balanced load sharing)
>>
>> Simple answer is that tcp_outgoing_address is the wrong place for that.
>> Use the OS routing/firewall rules instead.
>>
>>
>> There are a few issues:
>>
>> 1) tcp_outgoing_address is a "fast group" ACL. Meaning it cannot use
>> external ACL helpers directly, must rely on a cached result from some
>> previous lookup of the helper.
>>
>> 2) In the recent Squid releases you can use the "random" type ACL to
>> spread the outgoing connections between a lit of tcp_outgoing_address
>> values.
>> 2a) tcp_outgoing_address is checked for every *potential* connection.
>> So load balancing using it does not work for any domains with multiple
>> IPs.
>> 2b) the OS is free to ignore tcp_outgoing_address if its rules assign
>> an IP address (ie source-NAT).
>> 2c) the choice of an outgoing IP address in no way limits what route
>> the packets may use. The OS routing rues need to be configured
>> explicitly for that. So may as well configure the load balancing there
>> to begin with.
>>
>>
>> Also the kernel already has all available information about up/down
>> state of NIC. So trying to get that into Squid is a lot of extra work
>> and latency on all connections for a very little benefit gain on
>> uncommon occasions.
>>
>>
>> Amos
>>
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